How to format your references using the Antioxidants and Redox Signaling citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Antioxidants and Redox Signaling (ARS). 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Brook EJ. Atmosphere. Leads and Lags at the End of the Last Ice Age. Science 2013;339(6123):1042–1043.

A journal article with 2 authors

Begley CG and Ellis LM. Drug Development: Raise Standards for Preclinical Cancer Research. Nature 2012;483(7391):531–533.

A journal article with 3 authors

Abramson J, Paz A and Philipson KD. Structural Biology. It’s All in the Symmetry. Science 2012;335(6069):669–670.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Song J, Xu L, Xing R, et al. Synthesis of Au/Graphene Oxide Composites for Selective and Sensitive Electrochemical Detection of Ascorbic Acid. Sci Rep 2014;4:7515.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hasslacher C and Böhm S. Diabetes and the Kidney. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2005.

An edited book

Lin P-CK. Logic Synthesis for Genetic Diseases: Modeling Disease Behavior Using Boolean Networks. (Khatri SP. ed). Springer: New York, NY; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Woods RJ and McCarthy MC. Abnormal Bleeding and Coagulopathies. In: General Surgery. (Bland KI, Büchler MW, Csendes A, et al. eds) Springer: London; 2009; pp. 37–42.

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 Antioxidants and Redox Signaling.

Blog post

Andrew E. New Type Of Exoplanet Discovered. IFLScience; 2014. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-type-exoplanet-discovered/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Delayed-Baggage Trends and Options for Compensating Passengers. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2012.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Spratley AM. Connecting Law and Creativity: The Role of Lawyers in Supporting Creative and Innovative Economic Development. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University: Washington, DC; 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

Crow K. Brando: Off the Waterfront, Into the Seminar Rooms. New York Times 2000;1410.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Brook, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Begley and Ellis, 2012; Brook, 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Begley and Ellis, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Song et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Antioxidants and Redox Signaling
ISSN (print)	1523-0864
ISSN (online)	1557-7716
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