How to format your references using the Inorganica Chimica Acta citation style

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

R.G. Parton, Cell biology. Life without caveolae, Science. 293 (2001) 2404–2405.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

C.R. Martin, Z.S. Siwy, Chemistry. Learning nature’s way: biosensing with synthetic nanopores, Science. 317 (2007) 331–332.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.S. Morse, R.L. Garwin, P.J. Olsiewski, Public health. Next flu pandemic: what to do until the vaccine arrives?, Science. 314 (2006) 929.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Bai, X. Han, J. Wu, Z. Chen, L. Li, Ecosystem stability and compensatory effects in the Inner Mongolia grassland, Nature. 431 (2004) 181–184.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G.C. Kanel, Pathology of Liver Diseases, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2017.

An edited book

[1]

M. Crowhurst, ed., Beginning Teachers: Reviewing Disastrous Lessons, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D.M. O’Hern, Y. Nozaki, Forest Secondary School, in: Y. Nozaki (Ed.), Natural Science Education, Indigenous Knowledge, and Sustainable Development in Rural and Urban Schools in Kenya: Toward Critical Postcolonial Curriculum Policies and Practices, SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2014: pp. 63–85.

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 Inorganica Chimica Acta.

Blog post

[1]

D. Andrew, Information Before Regulation To Make Amateur Brain Stimulation Safer, IFLScience. (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/brain/information-before-regulation-to-make-amateur-brain-stimulation-safer/ (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, Public Transportation: Washington Metro Could Benefit from Clarified Board Roles and Responsibilities, Improved Strategic Planning, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.K. Kennedy-Reid, Exploring the Habitus: A Phenomenological Study of Transformative Learning Processes, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 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]

M.W. Walsh, New Rule Proposed for Valuing Public Pension Finances, New York Times. (2010) B1.

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	Inorganica Chimica Acta
Abbreviation	Inorganica Chim. Acta
ISSN (print)	0020-1693
Scope	Inorganic Chemistry Physical and Theoretical Chemistry Materials Chemistry

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