How to format your references using the Acta Geotechnica citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Hoag H (2005) Ontario. Nature 434:676–677
A journal article with 2 authors
1.
Dauphas N, Pourmand A (2011) Hf-W-Th evidence for rapid growth of Mars and its status as a planetary embryo. Nature 473:489–492
A journal article with 3 authors
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Haas JS, Zavala B, Landisman CE (2011) Activity-dependent long-term depression of electrical synapses. Science 334:389–393
A journal article with 5 or more authors
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Liu D, Vader G, Vromans MJM, et al (2009) Sensing chromosome bi-orientation by spatial separation of aurora B kinase from kinetochore substrates. Science 323:1350–1353

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Anstädt T, Keller I, Lutz H (2010) Intelligente Videoanalyse. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany
An edited book
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Bersini H, Carneiro J (2006) Artificial Immune Systems: 5th International Conference, ICARIS 2006, Oeiras, Portugal, September 4-6, 2006. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg
A chapter in an edited book
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Biswas P, Langdon P (2015) Inclusive User Modeling and Simulation. In: Biswas P, Duarte C, Langdon P, Almeida L (eds) A Multimodal End-2-End Approach to Accessible Computing. Springer, London, pp 91–110

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 Geotechnica.

Blog post
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Hamilton K (2017) Want To Eradicate Viruses? They Made Us Who We Are. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/want-to-eradicate-viruses-they-made-us-who-we-are/. Accessed 30 Oct 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
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Government Accountability Office (1977) Award of Grant by the San Francisco Operations Office of the U.S. Energy Research and Development Administration for the Energy Awareness Project. 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
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Daum MA (2012) Busy Fingers, Wordless Thoughts: Entering the Knot of Compulsive Hair Twisting. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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
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Hodara S (2017) You Can Just Put That Cookie Cutter Away. New York Times RE8

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal titleActa Geotechnica
AbbreviationActa Geotech.
ISSN (print)1861-1125
ISSN (online)1861-1133
ScopeEarth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)
Geotechnical Engineering and Engineering Geology

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