How to format your references using the Radiochimica Acta citation style

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

Bobrow, M.: Balancing privacy with public benefit. Nature. 500, 123 (2013).

A journal article with 2 authors

Allcott, H., Mullainathan, S.: Energy. Behavior and energy policy. Science. 327, 1204 (2010).

A journal article with 3 authors

Exadaktylos, F., Espín, A.M., Brañas-Garza, P.: Experimental subjects are not different. Sci. Rep. 3, 1213 (2013).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sankaran, V.G., Menne, T.F., Xu, J., Akie, T.E., Lettre, G., Van Handel, B., Mikkola, H.K.A., Hirschhorn, J.N., Cantor, A.B., Orkin, S.H.: Human fetal hemoglobin expression is regulated by the developmental stage-specific repressor BCL11A. Science. 322, 1839 (2008).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Akivis, M.A., Goldberg, V.V.: Conformal Differential Geometry and Its Generalizations. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ 1996, p.

An edited book

Supalov, A.: Optimizing HPC Applications with Intel® Cluster Tools. Apress, Berkeley, CA 2014, p. XXIV, 300 p. 74 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Beilina, L., Andresen, M.P.H., Krogstad, H.E.: Adaptive Finite Element Method in Reconstruction of Dielectrics from Backscattered Data. In: Applied Inverse Problems: Select Contributions from the First Annual Workshop on Inverse Problems. Springer, New York, NY (Beilina, L., ed.) (2013).

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 Radiochimica Acta.

Blog post

Hamilton, K.: From Perspiration To World Domination – The Extraordinary Science Of Sweat, https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/from-perspiration-to-world-domination-the-extraordinary-science-of-sweat/.

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: Next Generation Air Transportation System: Challenges with Partner Agency and FAA Coordination Continue, and Efforts to Integrate Near-, Mid-, and Long-term Activities Are Ongoing. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 2010, p.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Milillo, M.S.: Analysis of emotional intelligence among management leaders and non-management leaders in software development, (2009).

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

Williams, J.: Waiting for the Mail, (2016).

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	Radiochimica Acta
Abbreviation	Radiochim. Acta
ISSN (print)	0033-8230
ISSN (online)	2193-3405
Scope	Physical and Theoretical Chemistry