How to format your references using the Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials. 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

Anglin, J. (2000). Nature 406, 29–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tsuji, K. & Tsutani, K. (2008). Nature 453, 851–852.

A journal article with 3 authors

Senghas, A., Kita, S. & Ozyürek, A. (2004). Science 305, 1779–1782.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rothschild, D., Weissbrod, O., Barkan, E., Kurilshikov, A., Korem, T., Zeevi, D., Costea, P. I., Godneva, A., Kalka, I. N., Bar, N., Shilo, S., Lador, D., Vila, A. V., Zmora, N., Pevsner-Fischer, M., Israeli, D., Kosower, N., Malka, G., Wolf, B. C., Avnit-Sagi, T., Lotan-Pompan, M., Weinberger, A., Halpern, Z., Carmi, S., Fu, J., Wijmenga, C., Zhernakova, A., Elinav, E. & Segal, E. (2018). Nature 555, 210–215.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bisswanger, H. (2005). Enzymkinetik Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Ahmad, A. & Gadgeel, S. M. (2016). Lung Cancer and Personalized Medicine: Novel Therapies and Clinical Management Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Koschuch, M., Hudler, M. & Krüger, M. (2012). Vol. E-Business and Telecommunications: 7th International Joint Conference, ICETE 2010, Athens, Greece, July 26-28, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, edited by M. S. Obaidat, G. A. Tsihrintzis & J. Filipe. pp. 71–83. 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 Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2017). IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/solar-power-installations-grew-almost-50-percent-in-2016/.

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 (1976). Career Education: Status and Needed Improvements 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

Akiyama, K. M. (2017). Taste Detection in Post-Laryngectomy Head and Neck Cancer Survivors and Its Effect on Dietary Intake and Malnutrition Status. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Williams, J. (2016). New York Times BR48.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Anglin, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Anglin, 2000; Tsuji & Tsutani, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Tsuji & Tsutani, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Rothschild et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Crystallographica Section B: Structural Science, Crystal Engineering and Materials
Abbreviation	Acta Crystallogr. B Struct. Sci. Cryst. Eng. Mater.
ISSN (online)	2052-5206
Scope	Electronic, Optical and Magnetic Materials Materials Chemistry Metals and Alloys Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics