How to format your references using the Electrochimica Acta citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Electrochimica 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	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]

M.H. Montgomery, Astronomy. The pulse of distant stars, Science 322 (2008) 536–537.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.B. Cotner, E.K. Hall, Comment on “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus,” Science 332 (2011) 1149; author reply 1149.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

L. Liu, S. Spasojevic, M. Gurnis, Reconstructing Farallon plate subduction beneath North America back to the Late Cretaceous, Science 322 (2008) 934–938.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

G.-L. Ming, S.T. Wong, J. Henley, X.-B. Yuan, H.-J. Song, N.C. Spitzer, M.-M. Poo, Adaptation in the chemotactic guidance of nerve growth cones, Nature 417 (2002) 411–418.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Pozzilli, A. Lenzi, B.L. Clarke, W.F. Young Jr, Imaging in Endocrinology, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

G.R.V. Hughes, S. Sangle, eds., Clinician’s Manual on Lupus, Springer Healthcare Ltd., Tarporley, 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Q.T. Bui, Q.D. Pham, Y. Deville, Solving the Quorumcast Routing Problem as a Mixed Integer Program, in: H. Simonis (Ed.), Integration of AI and OR Techniques in Constraint Programming: 11th International Conference, CPAIOR 2014, Cork, Ireland, May 19-23, 2014. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 45–54.

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 Electrochimica Acta.

Blog post

[1]

E. Andrew, Symbiosis Between Plants and Bacteria Begins In The Seed, IFLScience (2014). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/symbiosis-between-plants-and-bacteria-begins-seed/ (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, Surface Transportation Security: TSA Has Taken Actions to Manage Risk, Improve Coordination, and Measure Performance, but Additional Actions Would Enhance Its Efforts, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.M. Cook, An Examination of the Proportion of Special Education Students in Single-Parent Homes in Comparison to Regular Education Students in Similar Households, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2017.

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]

E. Barry, A.E. Kramer, In Biting Cold, Protesters Pack the Center of Moscow to Rally Against Putin, New York Times (2012) A8.

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	Electrochimica Acta
Abbreviation	Electrochim. Acta
ISSN (print)	0013-4686
Scope	General Chemical Engineering Electrochemistry