How to format your references using the Redox Biology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Redox Biology. 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]

T.P. Russell, Surface-responsive materials, Science 297 (2002) 964–967.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.L. Roberts, A.R. Solow, Flightless birds: when did the dodo become extinct?, Nature 426 (2003) 245.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

G.D. Cymes, Y. Ni, C. Grosman, Probing ion-channel pores one proton at a time, Nature 438 (2005) 975–980.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Oh, Y. Li, J. Yu, E. Durr, K.M. Krasinska, L.A. Carver, J.E. Testa, J.E. Schnitzer, Subtractive proteomic mapping of the endothelial surface in lung and solid tumours for tissue-specific therapy, Nature 429 (2004) 629–635.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J. Tobias, D. Hochhauser, Cancer and its Management, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

B. Gärtner, Approximation Algorithms and Semidefinite Programming, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.R. Smith, Asian Honeybees and Mitochondrial DNA, in: H.R. Hepburn, S.E. Radloff (Eds.), Honeybees of Asia, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011: pp. 69–93.

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 Redox Biology.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, New Technique Mimics Animal Senses To Screen For Toxic Chemicals, IFLScience (2016).

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, Guaranteed Student Loans: Eliminating Interest Rate Floors Could Generate Substantial Savings, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

J. Mayo, Rates and factors associated with child maltreatment recurrence for children from birth to 5 years of age in Ventura County, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

S.R. Kelly, A Bend in the River, New York Times (2013) A35.

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	Redox Biology
Abbreviation	Redox Biol.
ISSN (print)	2213-2317
Scope	Biochemistry Organic Chemistry