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

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
B. Steinberger, Geophysics. Reconstructing Earth history in three dimensions, Science 322 (2008) 866–868.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
C.J. Bjerrum, D.E. Canfield, Ocean productivity before about 1.9 Gyr ago limited by phosphorus adsorption onto iron oxides, Nature 417 (2002) 159–162.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
C. Chen, C.A. Bobisch, W. Ho, Visualization of Fermi’s golden rule through imaging of light emission from atomic silver chains, Science 325 (2009) 981–985.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
T. Thüring, M. Abis, Z. Wang, C. David, M. Stampanoni, X-ray phase-contrast imaging at 100 keV on a conventional source, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5198.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
C. Davino, M. Furno, D. Vistocco, Quantile Regression: Theory and Applications, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, 2014.
An edited book
[1]
L.D. Lefebure, ed., Religion, Authority, and the State: From Constantine to the Contemporary World, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 2016.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
G. Messina, S. Biressi, G. Cossu, Non Muscle Stem Cells and Muscle Regeneration, in: T. Partridge (Ed.), Skeletal Muscle Repair and Regeneration, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2008: pp. 65–84.

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: X.

Blog post
[1]
E. Andrew, Astronomers Spot Incredibly Rare Quasar Quartet, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/rare-sighting-four-quasars/ (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, Information Technology: Agencies Need to Improve Their Application Inventories to Achieve Additional Savings, 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]
J.R. Cannon, Microwave-supported acid hydrolysis for proteomics, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, 2012.

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]
L. Greenhouse, Free Rein for Immigration Agents, New York Times (2017) A27.

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 titleAnalytica Chimica Acta: X
ISSN (print)2590-1346
Scope

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