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

Dudukovic, M.P.: Frontiers in reactor engineering. Science. 325, 698–701 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Alperin, M., Hoehler, T.: Biogeochemistry. The ongoing mystery of sea-floor methane. Science. 329, 288–289 (2010)

A journal article with 3 authors

Tucker, W.C., Weber, T., Chapman, E.R.: Reconstitution of Ca2+-regulated membrane fusion by synaptotagmin and SNAREs. Science. 304, 435–438 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gramm, F., Baerlocher, C., McCusker, L.B., Warrender, S.J., Wright, P.A., Han, B., Hong, S.B., Liu, Z., Ohsuna, T., Terasaki, O.: Complex zeolite structure solved by combining powder diffraction and electron microscopy. Nature. 444, 79–81 (2006)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Böhmer, E.: Dentistry in Rabbits and Rodents. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2015)

An edited book

Assens, C.: Networks Governance, Partnership Management and Coalitions Federation. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Nenon, T.: The Limits of Biomedical Ethics and the Specific Role of Phenomenology in Biomedical Ethics. In: Wiggins, O.P. and Allen, A.C. (eds.) Clinical Ethics and the Necessity of Stories: Essays in Honor of Richard M. Zaner. pp. 45–55. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2011)

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

Andrew, E.: Newly Released Footage Shows A Wild Panda Masturbating, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-released-footage-shows-wild-panda-masturbating/

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: Health and Safety: Environmental Oversight of Classified Federal Research. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1996)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bracht, K.D.: Causes of nonattendance and its effect on student achievement at the high school level, (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

Billard, M.: Tango On the Beach, (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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