How to format your references using the Acta Polytechnica citation style

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

[1]

Ruelle, D.: Here be no dragons. Nature, 411 (6833), 2001, p. 27.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kang, T.M., Hilgemann, D.W.: Multiple transport modes of the cardiac Na+/Ca2+ exchanger. Nature, 427 (6974), 2004, p. 544–548.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Convertito, V. et al.: Combining stress transfer and source directivity: the case of the 2012 Emilia seismic sequence. Sci. Rep., 3, 2013, p. 3114.

A journal article with 3 or more authors

[1]

Guo, S. et al.: Significantly increased monounsaturated lipids relative to polyunsaturated lipids in six types of cancer microenvironment are observed by mass spectrometry imaging. Sci. Rep., 4, 2014, p. 5959.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Coles, A., Hawkins, D.G.: MIDAS Technical Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Roth-Berghofer, T.R. et al. eds.: Modeling and Retrieval of Context: Second International Workshop, MRC 2005, Edinburgh, UK, July 31–August 1, 2005, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Aitchison, K.: No Going Back: Remembering When British Archaeology Changed Forever. In: Training and Practice for Modern Day Archaeologists (Editors: J. H. Jameson and J. Eogan). New York, NY: Springer, 2013, p. 53–67.

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 Polytechnica.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, D.: Science In Crisis: From The Sugar Scam To Brexit, Our Faith In Experts Is Fading. IFLScience, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office: Space Operations: NASA’s Communications Support for Earth Orbiting Spacecraft. IMTEC-89-41. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Conway, A.H.: Signs and symptoms of moral injury in female vietnam veterans: A qualitative examination of the nvvrs. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University, 2014.

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

[1]

Dyson, M.E.: Charlottesville and the Bigotocracy. New York Times, 2017, p. A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Polytechnica
Abbreviation	Acta Polytech.
ISSN (print)	1210-2709
ISSN (online)	1805-2363
Scope	General Engineering