thanks Walmin. I'd looked at those and it looks like nothing I have got in my thesis.
Mine is: surname, initials, year, title, journal, page.
am beginning to feel a little stressed about this. I may modify the unimelb one to suit what am doing.
my department does not require that we follow any style, just that all along i thought i'd be using Oxford. that was until i googled it and got the shock of my life!