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

Lucht, R. P. (2007). Chemistry. Femtosecond lasers for molecular measurements. Science (New York, N.Y.), 316(5822), 207–208.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaya, M., & Higuchi, H. (2010). Nonlinear elasticity and an 8-nm working stroke of single myosin molecules in myofilaments. Science (New York, N.Y.), 329(5992), 686–689.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reik, W., Dean, W., & Walter, J. (2001). Epigenetic reprogramming in mammalian development. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5532), 1089–1093.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Chuai, X., Huang, X., Wang, W., Wu, C., & Zhao, R. (2014). Spatial simulation of land use based on terrestrial ecosystem carbon storage in coastal Jiangsu, China. Scientific reports, 4, 5667.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dinçer, İ., & Zamfirescu, C. (2015). Drying Phenomena. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Tscheligi, M., Obrist, M., & Lugmayr, A. (Eds.). (2008). Changing Television Environments: 6th European Conference, EUROITV 2008, Salzburg, Austria, July 3-4, 2008 Proceedings (Vol. 5066). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Falmagne, J.-C., & Doble, C. (2015). Defining Meaningfulness. In C. Doble (Ed.), On Meaningful Scientific Laws (pp. 59–78). 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

Hale, T. (2016, June 10). Huge Ancient Hidden Monument Found In Petra Using Satellites, Drones, And Google Earth. IFLScience. IFLScience. 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. (1995). School Finance: Three States’ Experiences With Equity in School Funding (No. HEHS-96-39). 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

Nelson, P. T. (2008). Sound as a gateway to a personal relationship with nature (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CA.

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

Cowen, T. (2016, June 3). More Time to Unwind, Unless You’re a Woman. New York Times, p. BU3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lucht 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Kaya and Higuchi 2010; Lucht 2007).

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

Two authors: (Kaya and Higuchi 2010)
Three or more authors: (Chuai et al. 2014)

About the journal

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