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]

Stone, R.: EASTERN EUROPE: Help Needed to Rebuild Science in Yugoslavia. Science, 290 (5492), 2000, p. 690–695.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ruhl, H.A., Smith, K.L., Jr: Shifts in deep-sea community structure linked to climate and food supply. Science, 305 (5683), 2004, p. 513–515.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chen, W. et al.: Polarisation control through an optical feedback technique and its application in precise measurements. Sci. Rep., 3, 2013, p. 1992.

A journal article with 3 or more authors

[1]

Chabot, V. et al.: High yield production and purification of few layer graphene by gum arabic assisted physical sonication. Sci. Rep., 3, 2013, p. 1378.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ryan, T.P.: Modern Engineering Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.

An edited book

[1]

Freiesleben Hansen, P.: The Science of Construction Materials. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

DoVale, J.C., Fritsche-Neto, R.: Root Phenomics. In: Phenomics: How Next-Generation Phenotyping is Revolutionizing Plant Breeding (Editors: R. Fritsche-Neto and A. Borém). Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, p. 49–66.

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, E.: Development And The Reef: The Rules Have Been Lax For Too Long. IFLScience, 2015.

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: Management Agenda for the Presidential and Congressional Transition: Promote Transparency and Open Government to Enhance Civic Engagement and Foster Innovation. D15091. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Puebla, R.A.: The avant-garde tuba: Analysis and comparisons of interpretations of William Kraft’s Encounters II for unaccompanied tuba. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Pilon, M.: Keeping Their Dogs From Looking Like Ours. New York Times, 2013, p. B8.

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