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]

Gershon D. Toxicogenomics gains impetus. Nature 2002;415:4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Joly P-B, Rip A. A timely harvest. Nature 2007;450:174.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Joseph AC, Joseph SE, Chen G. Cross-border portfolio investment networks and indicators for financial crises. Sci Rep 2014;4:3991.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Wu Z, Sun X, Sullivan SG, Detels R. Public health. HIV testing in China. Science 2006;312:1475–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Khanlari R, Fard MS. FIDIC Plant and Design-Build Form of Contract Illustrated. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Levy TE, Schneider T, Propp WHC, editors. Israel’s Exodus in Transdisciplinary Perspective: Text, Archaeology, Culture, and Geoscience. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zeng J-Y, Cao X-H, Gan J-Y. An Improvement of AdaBoost for Face Detection with Random Forests. In: Huang D-S, McGinnity M, Heutte L, Zhang X-P, editors. Advanced Intelligent Computing Theories and Applications: 6th International Conference on Intelligent Computing, ICIC 2010, Changsha, China, August 18-21, 2010. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 22–9.

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]

Andrew E. Watch The ESA’s Ariane 5 Rocket Launch Live! IFLScience 2014.

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. Highlights of a Forum: Transforming Transportation Policy for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Fisher E. Suffering God. Doctoral dissertation. Pacifica Graduate Institute, 2012.

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]

Schlossberg T, Tabuchi H. Settlements for Company Sins Can No Longer Aid Other Projects. New York Times 2017:A1.

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

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