How to format your references using the Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Willems, P. A. (2009). Science 325, 707–708.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cafaro, J. & Rieke, F. (2010). Nature 468, 964–967.

A journal article with 3 authors

Labeit, A., Peinemann, F. & Kedir, A. (2013). Sci. Rep. 3, 2362.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sakurai, G., Iizumi, T., Nishimori, M. & Yokozawa, M. (2014). Sci. Rep. 4, 4978.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bakker, J. & Clarke, R. J. (2011). Wine Flavour Chemistry Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Foxwell, H. J. (2009). Pro OpenSolaris: A New Open Source OS for Linux Developers and Administrators Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Restivo, S. (2007). Vol. Perspectives On Mathematical Practices: Bringing Together Philosophy of Mathematics, Sociology of Mathematics, and Mathematics Education, edited by B. van Kerkhove & J. P. van Bendegem. pp. 61–79. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2017). IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/entire-population-of-single-species-counted-for-the-first-time-from-space/.

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 (1989). [Comments on Special Legislative Provision Concerning Compensation for Reemployed Retired Air Traffic Controllers] 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

Basik, N. (2008). An evolutionary approach to intuitionism and moral realism. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University.

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

Murphy, M. J. O. (2015). New York Times C22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Willems, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Willems, 2009; Cafaro & Rieke, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Cafaro & Rieke, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Sakurai et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science
ISSN (print)	0108-7681
ISSN (online)	1600-5740
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