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

Power, S.B.: Climate science: Expulsion from history. Nature. 511, 38 (2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

Kozlova, T., Thummel, C.S.: Essential roles for ecdysone signaling during Drosophila mid-embryonic development. Science. 301, 1911 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

Pertea, M., Salzberg, S.L., Gardner, M.J.: Finding genes in Plasmodium falciparum. Nature. 404, 34; discussion 34 (2000).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Helder, E.A., Vink, J., Bassa, C.G., Bamba, A., Bleeker, J.A.M., Funk, S., Ghavamian, P., van der Heyden, K.J., Verbunt, F., Yamazaki, R.: Measuring the cosmic-ray acceleration efficiency of a supernova remnant. Science. 325, 719 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, X., Parini, C.G., Collins, B., Yao, Y., Ur Rehman, M.: Antennas for Global Navigation Satellite Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK 2012, p.

An edited book

Nehring, D.: Transnational Popular Psychology and the Global Self-Help Industry: The Politics of Contemporary Social Change. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London 2016, p. XI, 198 p.

A chapter in an edited book

Chaudhry, P., Zimmerman, A.: Modeling the Intellectual Property Rights Environment. In: Protecting Your Intellectual Property Rights: Understanding the Role of Management, Governments, Consumers and Pirates. Springer, New York, NY (Zimmerman, A., 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

Andrew, E.: Bill Nye Explains How The Universe Speaks To Us In A Hilarious New Video, https://www.iflscience.com/space/bill-nye-explains-secrets-universe-amy-schumer/.

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: Aviation Security: TSA’s Change to Its Prohibited Items List Has Not Resulted in Any Reported Security Incidents, but the Impact of the Change on Screening Operations Is Inconclusive. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 2007, p.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Arguello, I.M.: Circle of Sisters summer program: A grant-writing project, (2010).

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

Otis, J.: Playing by Rules After Breaking Them for Years, (2017).

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