How to format your references using the Oxymag citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Oxymag. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

[1]

Albarède F. Rogue mantle helium and neon. Science 2008;319:943–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Vukusic P, Sambles JR. Photonic structures in biology. Nature 2003;424:852–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Atallah BV, Scanziani M, Carandini M. Atallah et al. reply. Nature 2014;508:E3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Yermiyahu U, Tal A, Ben-Gal A, Bar-Tal A, Tarchitzky J, Lahav O. Environmental science. Rethinking desalinated water quality and agriculture. Science 2007;318:920–1.

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

[1]

Ibe EH. Terrestrial Radiation Effects in ULSI Devices and Electronic Systems. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Senani R. Current Feedback Operational Amplifiers and Their Applications. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Jones SK, Roach PA, Perkins S. Construction of Heuristics for a Search-Based Approach to Solving Sudoku. In: Bramer M, Coenen F, Petridis M, editors. Research and Development in Intelligent Systems XXIV: Proceedings of AI-2007, the Twenty-seventh SGAI International Conference on Innovative Techniques and Applications of Artificial Intelligence, London: Springer; 2008, p. 37–49.

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Oxymag.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Blue-Footed Boobies Camouflage Eggs With Dirt, And It Works. IFLScience 2015.

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Changes Needed in Administering Relief to Industries Hurt by Overseas Competition. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1981.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Jackson M. Creating community in a dual immersion program: A grant writing project. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

[1]

Kishkovsky S. A Low-Key Birthday for Putin: Just 450 Roses. New York Times 2016:A6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Oxymag
ISSN (print)	0990-1310
Scope	Emergency Medicine Emergency