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

Corbyn, Z.: Science education: Research on the reservation. Nature. 471, 25 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

Maser, R.S., DePinho, R.A.: Connecting chromosomes, crisis, and cancer. Science. 297, 565 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

Heimpel, M., Aurnou, J., Wicht, J.: Simulation of equatorial and high-latitude jets on Jupiter in a deep convection model. Nature. 438, 193 (2005).

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peng, X., Zhou, R., Wang, B., Yu, X., Yang, X., Liu, K., Mi, M.: Effect of green tea consumption on blood pressure: a meta-analysis of 13 randomized controlled trials. Sci. Rep. 4, 6251 (2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hein, H., Kunze, W.: Umweltanalytik mit Spektrometrie und Chromatographie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG 2005, p.

An edited book

Némethi, A., Szilárd, Á. eds: Deformations of Surface Singularities. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg 2013, p. XII, 275 p. 71 illus.

A chapter in an edited book

Bolatkale, M., Breems, L.J., Makinwa, K.A.A.: A 4 GHz Continuous-Time ΔΣ ADC. In: High Speed and Wide Bandwidth Delta-Sigma ADCs. Springer International Publishing, Cham (Breems, L.J. and Makinwa, K.A.A., eds.) (2014).

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

Carpineti, C.: This Incredible Video Lets You See What It Looks Like INSIDE A Tornado, https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-incredible-video-lets-you-see-what-it-looks-like-inside-a-tornado/.

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: Comments on Proposed FPR Subpart. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC 1981, p.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dovale, M.J.: Postwar japan’s hybrid modernity of in-betweenness: Historical, literary, and social perspectives, (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

Johnson, G.: Blind as a Bat: A Case of Mind vs. Body, (2014).

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