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. Hess, Materials science. Toward devices powered by biomolecular motors, Science. 312 (2006) 860–861.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

P.J. Baker, J.S. Wilson, Plant ecology: Coexistence of tropical tree species, Nature. 422 (2003) 581–2; discussion 852.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M. Yamaguchi, M. Shiga, H. Kaburaki, Grain boundary decohesion by impurity segregation in a nickel-sulfur system, Science. 307 (2005) 393–397.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

M. Urbakh, J. Klafter, D. Gourdon, J. Israelachvili, The nonlinear nature of friction, Nature. 430 (2004) 525–528.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

K.R. Rao, Z.S. Bojkovic, D.A. Milovanovic, Introduction to Multimedia Communications, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

G.E. Mullin, L.J. Cheskin, L.E. Matarese, eds., Integrative Weight Management: A Guide for Clinicians, Springer, New York, NY, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

L.A. Lavery, D.G. Armstrong, Clinical Examination and Risk Classification of the Diabetic Foot, in: A. Veves, J.M. Giurini, F.W. LoGerfo (Eds.), The Diabetic Foot: Medical and Surgical Management, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 2012: pp. 59–74.

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]

B. Taub, You Can Now 3D Print Your Own Cosmic Microwave Background, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/you-can-now-3d-print-your-own-cosmic-microwave-background/ (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, Data Center Consolidation: Agencies Making Progress, but Planned Savings Goals Need to Be Established [Reissued on March 4, 2016], U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Kong, Formal Methods Applied to the Specification of an Active Network Node, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2001.

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]

B. Strauss, Athletes Stand to Gain in a Settlement With the N.C.A.A, New York Times. (2017) SP2.

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

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