How to format your references using the Acoustics Australia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acoustics Australia. 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

Craik, D.J.: Chemistry. Seamless proteins tie up their loose ends. Science. 311, 1563–1564 (2006)

A journal article with 2 authors

Lemons, D., McGinnis, W.: Genomic evolution of Hox gene clusters. Science. 313, 1918–1922 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Winkler, W., Nahvi, A., Breaker, R.R.: Thiamine derivatives bind messenger RNAs directly to regulate bacterial gene expression. Nature. 419, 952–956 (2002)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sogabe, T., Shoji, Y., Ohba, M., Yoshida, K., Tamaki, R., Hong, H.-F., Wu, C.-H., Kuo, C.-T., Tomić, S., Okada, Y.: Intermediate-band dynamics of quantum dots solar cell in concentrator photovoltaic modules. Sci. Rep. 4, 4792 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shinohara, H., Tagmatarchis, N.: Endohedral Metallofullerenes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2015)

An edited book

Pankratius, V., Philippsen, M. eds: Multicore Software Engineering, Performance, and Tools: International Conference, MSEPT 2012, Prague, Czech Republic, May 31 - June 1, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2012)

A chapter in an edited book

Maxwell, I., Pigram, D.: Gaudi’s Puffy Jacket: A Method for the Implementation of Fabric Slump Casting in the Construction of Thin-Wall Funicular Vault Structures. In: Block, P., Knippers, J., Mitra, N.J., and Wang, W. (eds.) Advances in Architectural Geometry 2014. pp. 61–77. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2015)

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 Acoustics Australia.

Blog post

Taub, B.: Having An Orgasm Is Like Going Into A Trance, https://www.iflscience.com/brain/having-an-orgasm-is-like-going-into-a-trance/

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: For-Profit Schools: Experiences of Undercover Students Enrolled in Online Classes at Selected Colleges. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2011)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Aldridge, K.N.: The Impact of Improved Teachers’ Classroom Management and Cultural Responsiveness on Student Behavior, (2015)

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

Vecsey, G.: Education of a Point Guard Comes Full Circle, (2010)

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	Acoustics Australia
Abbreviation	Acoust. Aust.
ISSN (print)	0814-6039
ISSN (online)	1839-2571
Scope

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