How to format your references using the Acta Commercii citation style

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

Pratt, S.T., 2014, ‘Ultrafast dynamics. Charge transfer goes the distance’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 345(6194), 267–268.

A journal article with 2 authors

Carter, N.J. & Cross, R.A., 2005, ‘Mechanics of the kinesin step’, Nature, 435(7040), 308–312.

A journal article with 3 authors

Powell, M.D., Vickery, P.J. & Reinhold, T.A., 2003, ‘Reduced drag coefficient for high wind speeds in tropical cyclones’, Nature, 422(6929), 279–283.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nakatsuji, S., Nambu, Y., Tonomura, H., Sakai, O., Jonas, S., Broholm, C., Tsunetsugu, H., Qiu, Y. & Maeno, Y., 2005, ‘Spin disorder on a triangular lattice’, Science (New York, N.Y.), 309(5741), 1697–1700.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heimann, R.B., 2010, Classic and Advanced Ceramics, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Cao, B., Li, T.-F. & Zhang, C.-Y. (eds.), 2009, Fuzzy Information and Engineering Volume 2, vol. 62, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Gorgulho, A.M.S.B.S., Neves, R.F.M.F. & Horta, N.C.G., 2013, ‘System Validation’, in R.F.M.F. Neves & N.C.G. Horta (eds.), Intelligent Financial Portfolio Composition based on Evolutionary Computation Strategies, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology., pp. 57–68, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Commercii.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2017, Scientists Need Your Brains, No Seriously, IFLScience.

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, 1983, Noncitizen Student Loan Defaults, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Addington, L.M., 2012, Students’ Preferences for Information Sources during the Undergraduate College Search Process: The Influence of Technology – PhD thesis, George Washington University, Washington, DC .

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

Hodgman, J., 2017, Bonus Advice From Judge John Hodgman, New York Times, p. MM18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pratt 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Carter & Cross 2005; Pratt 2014).

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

Two authors: (Carter & Cross 2005)
Three or more authors: (Nakatsuji et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Commercii
ISSN (print)	2413-1903
ISSN (online)	1684-1999
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