How to format your references using the Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging. 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

Turnbaugh, P.J.: Microbiology: fat, bile and gut microbes. Nature. 487, 47–48 (2012)

A journal article with 2 authors

MacLean, R.C., Gudelj, I.: Resource competition and social conflict in experimental populations of yeast. Nature. 441, 498–501 (2006)

A journal article with 3 authors

Morris, R.J., Lewis, O.T., Godfray, H.C.J.: Experimental evidence for apparent competition in a tropical forest food web. Nature. 428, 310–313 (2004)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sancey, L., Motto-Ros, V., Busser, B., Kotb, S., Benoit, J.M., Piednoir, A., Lux, F., Tillement, O., Panczer, G., Yu, J.: Laser spectrometry for multi-elemental imaging of biological tissues. Sci. Rep. 4, 6065 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, R.A.: Virgil. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK (2010)

An edited book

Kurosu, M. ed: Human-Computer Interaction. Applications and Services: 15th International Conference, HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2013)

A chapter in an edited book

Rapp, D.N.: Mental Models: Theoretical Issues for Visualizations in Science Education. In: Gilbert, J.K. (ed.) Visualization in Science Education. pp. 43–60. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2005)

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 Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: High-Intensity Workouts Could Slow Down Your Aging By Almost A Decade, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/highintensity-workouts-could-slow-down-your-aging-by-almost-a-decade/

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: School Facilities: Accessibility for the Disabled Still an Issue. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (1995)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Glover, D.: Reconciling the doctrine of original sin with principles of moral responsibility, (2010)

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

Schwirtz, M., Stewart, N., Baker, A.L.: As Police Seek a Motive, a Killer’s Sister Offers Her Perspective, (2017)

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 title	Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging
Abbreviation	Adv. Struct. Chem. Imaging
ISSN (online)	2198-0926
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