How to format your references using the Transition Metal Chemistry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transition Metal Chemistry. 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

Trewavas A (2002) Mindless mastery. Nature 415:841

A journal article with 2 authors

Venkatesan AK, Halden RU (2014) Wastewater treatment plants as chemical observatories to forecast ecological and human health risks of manmade chemicals. Sci Rep 4:3731

A journal article with 3 authors

Park CY, Shcheglovitov A, Dolmetsch R (2010) The CRAC channel activator STIM1 binds and inhibits L-type voltage-gated calcium channels. Science 330:101–105

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Rosenfeld D, Dai J, Yu X, et al (2007) Inverse relations between amounts of air pollution and orographic precipitation. Science 315:1396–1398

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Giannini F, Leuzzi G (2005) Nonlinear Microwave Circuit Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Shively JM (2006) Complex Intracellular Structures in Prokaryotes. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Liu L, Ma H, Tao D, Zhang D (2007) A Hierarchical Cooperation Model for Application Self-reconfiguration of Sensor Networks. In: Shen W, Luo J, Lin Z, et al (eds) Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design III: 10th International Conference, CSCWD 2006, Nanjing, China, May 3-5, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 33–42

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 Transition Metal Chemistry.

Blog post

Hale T (2016) Archaeologists Dig Up Britain’s Oldest Handwritten Document In Central London. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologists-dig-britains-oldest-handwritten-document-central-london/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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

Government Accountability Office (1979) Questions Designed To Aid Managers and Auditors in Assessing the ADP Planning Process. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ray RT (2015) Utilization of a Clinical Reminder System to Increase the Incidence of HIV Screening in a Primary Care Clinic. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana

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

Feeney K (2008) Freshness City Dwellers Hunger For. New York Times NJ11

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	Transition Metal Chemistry
Abbreviation	Transit. Met. Chem.
ISSN (print)	0340-4285
ISSN (online)	1572-901X
Scope	Inorganic Chemistry Materials Chemistry Metals and Alloys