How to format your references using the Microchimica Acta citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Microchimica 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Hertwig R (2012) Psychology. Tapping into the wisdom of the crowd--with confidence. Science 336:303–304

A journal article with 2 authors

Furukawa N, Mima J (2014) Multiple and distinct strategies of yeast SNAREs to confer the specificity of membrane fusion. Sci Rep 4:4277

A journal article with 3 authors

Lucia U, Ponzetto A, Deisboeck TS (2014) A thermo-physical analysis of the proton pump vacuolar-ATPase: the constructal approach. Sci Rep 4:6763

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Antkowiak M, Torres-Mapa ML, Witts EC, et al (2013) Fast targeted gene transfection and optogenetic modification of single neurons using femtosecond laser irradiation. Sci Rep 3:3281

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baker WL, Marn MV, Zawada CC (2010) The Price Advantage. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Nóvoa H, Drăgoicea M (2015) Exploring Services Science: 6th International Conference, IESS 2015, Porto, Portugal, February 4-6, 2015, Proceedings. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Dolama MV, Rahbar AG (2010) Performance Evaluation of the Number of Database Accesses in Cellular Networks. In: Özcan A, Chaki N, Nagamalai D (eds) Recent Trends in Wireless and Mobile Networks: Second International Conference, WiMo 2010, Ankara, Turkey, June 26-28, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 46–58

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 Microchimica Acta.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) An Insight Into The Domestication Of Barnyard Chickens. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/insight-domestication-barnyard-chickens/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1987) Federal Aviation Administration’s Acquisition of the Advanced Automation System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grefe SE (2013) Plasmonic and topological insulator nanostructures and metamaterials nanoscale near-field investigations: Experiment and theory. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Brantley B (2016) King Leontes Is Insane. It’s as Simple (and as Scary) as That. New York Times C7

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	Microchimica Acta
Abbreviation	Mikrochim. Acta
ISSN (print)	0026-3672
ISSN (online)	1436-5073
Scope	Analytical Chemistry