How to format your references using the Oxford German Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Oxford German Studies. 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 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

Webb, Spahr C., ‘The Earth’s “hum” Is Driven by Ocean Waves over the Continental Shelves’, Nature, 445.7129 (2007), pp. 754–56

A journal article with 2 authors

Gray, Russell D., and Quentin D. Atkinson, ‘Language-Tree Divergence Times Support the Anatolian Theory of Indo-European Origin’, Nature, 426.6965 (2003), pp. 435–39

A journal article with 3 authors

Salje, Jeanne, Benoît Zuber, and Jan Löwe, ‘Electron Cryomicroscopy of E. Coli Reveals Filament Bundles Involved in Plasmid DNA Segregation’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 323.5913 (2009), pp. 509–12

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chen, Lianyu, and others, ‘The IL-8/CXCR1 Axis Is Associated with Cancer Stem Cell-like Properties and Correlates with Clinical Prognosis in Human Pancreatic Cancer Cases’, Scientific Reports, 4 (2014), p. 5911

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kölle, Walter, Wasseranalysen - Richtig Beurteilt (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2017)

An edited book

Dale, Chris, and Tom Anderson, eds., Achieving Systems Safety: Proceedings of the Twentieth Safety-Critical Systems Symposium, Bristol, UK, 7-9th February 2012 (Springer, 2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Zweidler-McKay, Patrick A., and Michael J. Borowitz, ‘Minimal Residual Disease in Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia’, in Adult Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia: Biology and Treatment, ed. by Anjali S. Advani and Hillard M. Lazarus (Humana Press, 2011), pp. 45–60

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 Oxford German Studies.

Blog post

Fang, Janet, ‘Female Promiscuity Prevents Infanticide, Leads to Bigger Balls’, IFLScience (IFLScience, 13 November 2014) <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/female-promiscuity-prevents-infanticide-leads-bigger-balls/>

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, NASA’s FIA Program: NASA’s Progress in Implementing Financial Integrity Act Requirements (U.S. Government Printing Office, 19 November 1985)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Parsons, Andrew Thomas, ‘Metal-Catalyzed Annulations of Strained Cycloalkanes’ (unpublished Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 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

(nyt), Sophia Kishkovsky, ‘World Briefing | Asia: China And Russia Plan First Joint Military Exercise’, New York Times, 14 December 2004, p. A6

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Oxford German Studies
Abbreviation	Oxf. Ger. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0078-7191
ISSN (online)	1745-9214
Scope	Language and Linguistics Literature and Literary Theory Linguistics and Language