How to format your references using the Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online. 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

Service, R. F. (2000). Science 290, 425–427.

A journal article with 2 authors

Destexhe, A. & Contreras, D. (2006). Science 314, 85–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Righton, D., Metcalfe, J. & Connolly, P. (2001). Nature 411, 156.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, J., Wang, C., Yu, S., Luo, Z., Chen, Y., Liu, Q., Hua, F., Xu, G. & Yu, P. (2014). Sci. Rep. 4, 7317.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

O’Gorman, T. W. (2012). Adaptive Tests of Significance Using Permutations of Residuals with R and SAS® Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rath, A. K. & Sahoo, N. (2016). Particle Radiotherapy: Emerging Technology for Treatment of Cancer New Delhi: Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Morrell, M. J. & Reiss, J. D. (2013). Vol. From Sounds to Music and Emotions: 9th International Symposium, CMMR 2012, London, UK, June 19-22, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, edited by M. Aramaki, M. Barthet, R. Kronland-Martinet & S. Ystad. pp. 58–81. 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 E: Structure Reports Online.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2017). IFLScience, https://www.iflscience.com/physics/catastrophic-erosion-cut-britain-off-from-europe-nearly-half-a-million-years-ago/.

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 (2000). Title I Program: Stronger Accountability Needed for Performance of Disadvantaged Students 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

Solari, S. (2009). A unified anatomical theory and computational model of cognitive information processing in the mammalian brain and the introduction of DNA reco codes. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego.

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

Clarke, J. (2016). New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Service, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Service, 2000; Destexhe & Contreras, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Destexhe & Contreras, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Crystallographica Section E: Structure Reports Online
Abbreviation	Acta Crystallogr. Sect. E Struct. Rep. Online
ISSN (online)	1600-5368
Scope