How to format your references using the Acta Analytica citation style

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

McDowell, N. (2002). Britain failing to bar risky students. Nature, 420(6914), 349.

A journal article with 2 authors

Andrew, P., & Barnes, W. L. (2004). Energy transfer across a metal film mediated by surface plasmon polaritons. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5698), 1002–1005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Logoteta, D., Fiori, G., & Iannaccone, G. (2014). Graphene-based lateral heterostructure transistors exhibit better intrinsic performance than graphene-based vertical transistors as post-CMOS devices. Scientific reports, 4, 6607.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Adachi, M. M., Labelle, A. J., Thon, S. M., Lan, X., Hoogland, S., & Sargent, E. H. (2013). Broadband solar absorption enhancement via periodic nanostructuring of electrodes. Scientific reports, 3, 2928.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Noyer, J.-M. (2016). Transformation of Collective Intelligences. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chorin, A. J. (2013). Stochastic Tools in Mathematics and Science. (O. H. Hald, Ed.) (3rd ed. 2013., Vol. 58). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, X., Dong, H., & Tian, Y. (2015). miRNA Optical Detection. In H. Dong & Y. Tian (Eds.), MicroRNA Detection and Pathological Functions (pp. 57–75). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Acta Analytica.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017, June 6). The Most Detailed Infrared Maps Of The 200 Brightest Galaxies In The Sky. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-most-detailed-infrared-maps-of-the-200-brightest-galaxies-in-the-sky/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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. (2012). Space Acquisitions: DOD Faces Challenges in Fully Realizing Benefits of Satellite Acquisition Improvements (No. GAO-12-563T). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCarter, K. M. (2008). The effect of auditory stimulation on learners with different learning styles (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Gustines, G. G. (2016, October 3). A Showrunner’s Geek Heaven. New York Times, p. D11.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (McDowell 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Andrew and Barnes 2004; McDowell 2002).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Andrew and Barnes 2004)
Three or more authors: (Adachi et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Analytica
Abbreviation	Acta Anal.
ISSN (print)	0353-5150
ISSN (online)	1874-6349
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