How to format your references using the Analytica Chimica Acta citation style

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

H. Wei, Fundamental limits of “ankylography” due to dimensional deficiency, Nature 480 (2011) E1.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Gray, B. Druker, Genomics: the breast cancer landscape, Nature 486 (2012) 328–329.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.A. Zwaan, P.G. van Dokkum, M.A. Verheijen, Hydrogen 21-centimeter emission from a galaxy at cosmological distance, Science 293 (2001) 1800–1802.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B.-S. Ding, D.J. Nolan, J.M. Butler, D. James, A.O. Babazadeh, Z. Rosenwaks, V. Mittal, H. Kobayashi, K. Shido, D. Lyden, T.N. Sato, S.Y. Rabbany, S. Rafii, Inductive angiocrine signals from sinusoidal endothelium are required for liver regeneration, Nature 468 (2010) 310–315.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

E.P. Lado, The Common Fisheries Policy, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

H. Gimpel, N.R. Jennings, G.E. Kersten, A. Ockenfels, C. Weinhardt, eds., Negotiation, Auctions, and Market Engineering: International Seminar, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, November 12-17, 2006, Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Galli, A. Perota, G. Lazzari, F. Lucchini, Transgenic Livestock transgenic crop livestock Technologies transgenic crop livestock technologies, in: R.A. Meyers (Ed.), Encyclopedia of Sustainability Science and Technology, Springer, New York, NY, 2012: pp. 10814–10839.

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 Analytica Chimica Acta.

Blog post

[1]

J. Fang, Birds Camouflage Nests Using Matching Colors, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/birds-camouflage-nests-using-matching-colors/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, National Airspace System: FAA’s Approach to Its New Communications System Appears Prudent, but Challenges Remain, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K.M. Coleman, Parent involvement in the promotion of healthy outcomes for young girls: A grant writing project, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2015.

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]

M.J. Lewis, The Art of War, New York Times (2017) BR21.

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	Analytica Chimica Acta
Abbreviation	Anal. Chim. Acta
ISSN (print)	0003-2670
Scope	Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy Environmental Chemistry