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

Lorenz R (2003) Computational mathematics. Full steam ahead-probably. Science 299:837–838

A journal article with 2 authors

Oncescu V, Erickson D (2013) High volumetric power density, non-enzymatic, glucose fuel cells. Sci Rep 3:1226

A journal article with 3 authors

Sambanis N, Schulhofer-Wohl J, Shayo M (2012) Social psychology. Parochialism as a central challenge in counterinsurgency. Science 336:805–808

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gröblacher S, Paterek T, Kaltenbaek R, et al (2007) An experimental test of non-local realism. Nature 446:871–875

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimond B (2010) Legal Aspects of Occupational Therapy. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Biagini F (2016) Elements of Probability and Statistics: An Introduction to Probability with de Finetti’s Approach and to Bayesian Statistics, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Rosas-Tellez LV, Zanella-Palacios V, Martínez-Flores JL (2013) Solution of a Modified Balanced Academic Curriculum Problem Using Evolutionary Strategies. In: Madani K, Dourado A, Rosa A, Filipe J (eds) Computational Intelligence: Revised and Selected Papers of the International Joint Conference, IJCCI 2011, Paris, France, October 24-26, 2011. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–58

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

Andrews R (2017) Scientists Finally Unravel Hawaii’s Bizarre Origin Story. In: IFLScience. 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 (2015) Geospatial Data: Progress Needed on Identifying Expenditures, Building and Utilizing a Data Infrastructure, and Reducing Duplicative Efforts [Reissued March 18, 2015]. 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

Pryor GL (2013) Effects of a balance-specific exercise program on blood pressure medication usage. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Wagner J (2017) For Some Major Leaguers, It’s Always Great to See ‘Friends.’ New York Times D1

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