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]

J.N. Weinstein, Biochemistry. A postgenomic visual icon, Science. 319 (2008) 1772–1773.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.A. Abanin, L.S. Levitov, Quantized Transport in Graphene p-n Junctions in a Magnetic Field, Science. 317 (2007) 641–643.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Y. Yamamoto, D.W. Stock, W.R. Jeffery, Hedgehog signalling controls eye degeneration in blind cavefish, Nature. 431 (2004) 844–847.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R. Matamala, M.A. Gonzàlez-Meler, J.D. Jastrow, R.J. Norby, W.H. Schlesinger, Impacts of fine root turnover on forest NPP and soil C sequestration potential, Science. 302 (2003) 1385–1387.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Black, Pragmatic Software Testing, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

F. Bacao, M.Y. Santos, M. Painho, eds., AGILE 2015: Geographic Information Science as an Enabler of Smarter Cities and Communities, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

B. Sauer, E. Ajanovic, Hegemonic Discourses of Difference and Inequality: Right-Wing Organisations in Austria, in: G. Lazaridis, G. Campani, A. Benveniste (Eds.), The Rise of the Far Right in Europe: Populist Shifts and “Othering,” Palgrave Macmillan UK, London, 2016: pp. 81–108.

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, Treating ‘Stage 0’ Breast Cancer Doesn’t Always Save Women’s Lives So Should We Screen For It?, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/treating-stage-0-breast-cancer-doesn-t-always-save-women-s-lives-so-should-we/ (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, Diploma Mills: Federal Employees Have Obtained Degrees from Diploma Mills and Other Unaccredited Schools, Some at Government Expense, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

M.P. Cannon, Cenozoic kinematics of the Little Pine fault, Santa Maria Basin, California, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

G. Vecsey, Rodriguez Stands Alone, and That’s a Good Thing, New York Times. (2010) B17.

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

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