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:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
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]

G. Bürger, Comment on “The spatial extent of 20th-century warmth in the context of the past 1200 years,” Science. 316 (2007) 1844; author reply 1844.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Oh, C.A. Mirkin, Chemically tailorable colloidal particles from infinite coordination polymers, Nature. 438 (2005) 651–654.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y.V. Hochberg, C. Serrano, R. Ziedonis, ENTREPRENEURSHIP. Intangible but bankable, Science. 348 (2015) 1202.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

X. Wang, X. Zhao, P. Gao, M. Wu, c-Myc modulates microRNA processing via the transcriptional regulation of Drosha, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1942.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

F.Y. Schulman, Veterinarian’s Guide to Maximizing Biopsy Results, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

V. Nazaikinskii, The Localization Problem in Index Theory of Elliptic Operators, Springer, Basel, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Bergmann, Ambient Intelligence for Decision Making in Fire Service Organizations, in: B. Schiele, A.K. Dey, H. Gellersen, B. de Ruyter, M. Tscheligi, R. Wichert, E. Aarts, A. Buchmann (Eds.), Ambient Intelligence: European Conference, AmI 2007, Darmstadt, Germany, November 7-10, 2007. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 73–90.

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, Aggression And Sexual Cannibalism In Wolf Spiders, IFLScience. (2014).

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, Settlement of Accounts of Certifying Officer, Lewis Research Center, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1972.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

P.R. Reynolds, Midkine (MK) Regulates Pulmonary Vascular Remodeling During Hypoxia, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2004.

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]

C. Kelly, Popular Tech Gathering Faces Growing Pains, New York Times. (2014) A27B.

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: X
ISSN (print)	2590-1346
Scope

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