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]

D. O’Rourke, The science of sustainable supply chains, Science 344 (2014) 1124–1127.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.P. Jackson, J. Bartek, The DNA-damage response in human biology and disease, Nature 461 (2009) 1071–1078.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

X. Chen, D. Parker, D.J. Singh, Importance of non-parabolic band effects in the thermoelectric properties of semiconductors, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3168.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Ros, R. Eichhorn, J. Regtmeier, T.T. Duong, P. Reimann, D. Anselmetti, Brownian motion: absolute negative particle mobility, Nature 436 (2005) 928.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Tripathi, R.S. Singh, C.D. Hills, Reclamation of Mine-Impacted Land for Ecosystem Recovery, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

D. Gibbs, J. Zajda, eds., Comparative Information Technology: Languages, Societies and the Internet, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

G. Knoche, K. Kuhnhenn, C. Vollmer, K. Werner, The Need for Decarbonising Our Economy, in: M. Angrick, A. Burger, H. Lehmann (Eds.), Factor X: Policy, Strategies and Instruments for a Sustainable Resource Use, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2014: pp. 93–101.

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]

A. Carpineti, Severe Solar Storms Might Go Undetected, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/space/severe-solar-storms-might-go-undetected/ (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, Social Security: Leadership Structure for an Independent Social Security Administration, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.P. Gurska, Peering Down the Bottomless Well: Myth in Thomas Mann’s Joseph Tetralogy, Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, 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]

B.Y.K. Crow, In Search of Starry, Starry Nights, New York Times (2000) 143.

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