Kinetics and mechanism of the electrochemical oxidation of thiocyanate on a Pt electrode were investigated by using various electrochemical methods, in which both current and potential oscillations have been observed. Cyclic voltammetry measurements illustrate that the oxidation process consists of two steps. In addition to the oscillatory behavior, the system also exhibits bistability, in which the oxidation could be switched between a high and a low current density states with a temporal potential perturbation. The presence of inert ions with stronger absorption also induces transitions from oscillatory to steady reactions in the thiocyanate system.