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]

Smith O. Biomedicine. Nota bene: weathering the big chill. Science 2003;299:530.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gagliardi L, Roos BO. Quantum chemical calculations show that the uranium molecule U2 has a quintuple bond. Nature 2005;433:848–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mugnier MR, Cross GAM, Papavasiliou FN. The in vivo dynamics of antigenic variation in Trypanosoma brucei. Science 2015;347:1470–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Dall’Osso F, Dominey-Howes D, Moore C, Summerhayes S, Withycombe G. The exposure of Sydney (Australia) to earthquake-generated tsunamis, storms and sea level rise: a probabilistic multi-hazard approach. Sci Rep 2014;4:7401.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sheldrake AL. Handbook of Electrical Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Datta A, editor. Advances in Computer Science - ASIAN 2009. Information Security and Privacy: 13th Asian Computing Science Conference, Seoul, Korea, December 14-16, 2009. Proceedings. vol. 5913. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Chin A, Juhn C. Does Reducing College Costs Improve Educational Outcomes for Undocumented Immigrants? Evidence from State Laws Permitting Undocumented Immigrants to Pay In-State Tuition at State Colleges and Universities. In: Leal DL, Trejo SJ, editors. Latinos and the Economy: Integration and Impact in Schools, Labor Markets, and Beyond, New York, NY: Springer; 2011, p. 63–94.

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]

O`Callaghan J. Why The Man Behind The New Horizons Mission Wants Pluto To Be A Planet Again. IFLScience 2017.

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. Public Education: Issues Involving Single-Gender Schools and Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Estrin JL. Sitting in the Fire: An Exploration of Soul-Making in Prison. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2014.

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]

Hubbard B, Sengupta S. Russia Backs U.N. Vote to Send Monitors to Aleppo, as Evacuations Resume. New York Times 2016:A8.

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