How to format your references using the Rheologica Acta citation style

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

Check E (2003) Report backs Smithsonian research. Nature 421:198

A journal article with 2 authors

Welker J, Giessibl FJ (2012) Revealing the angular symmetry of chemical bonds by atomic force microscopy. Science 336:444–449

A journal article with 3 authors

Liljas A, Ehrenberg M, Åqvist J (2011) Comment on “The mechanism for activation of GTP hydrolysis on the ribosome.” Science 333:37; author reply 37

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim Y, Shim H, Kim K, et al (2014) Profiling individual human red blood cells using common-path diffraction optical tomography. Sci Rep 4:6659

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hofmeyr GJ, Neilson JP, Alfirevic Z, et al (2008) A Cochrane Pocketbook: Pregnancy and Childbirth. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Muneesawang P (2006) Multimedia Database Retrieval: A Human-Centered Approach. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

Hadjiona M, Georgiou C, Papa M, Vassiliou V (2008) A Hybrid Fault-Tolerant Algorithm for MPLS Networks. In: Harju J, Heijenk G, Langendörfer P, Siris VA (eds) Wired/Wireless Internet Communications: 6th International Conference, WWIC 2008 Tampere, Finland, May 28-30, 2008 Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 41–52

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 Rheologica Acta.

Blog post

Andrew D (2016) The Ocean Is Losing Its Breath – And Climate Change Is Making It Worse. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-ocean-is-losing-its-breath-and-climate-change-is-making-it-worse/. 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 (2009) Information Technology: Actions Needed to Fully Establish Program Management Capability for VA’s Financial and Logistics Initiative. 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

Bravo M (2015) The development of a viable business plan: Analytics of 30 day readmission rates for hospitals and ancillary services. 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

Barron J (2017) Mystery of the Hamilton Painting at City Hall: Lost, Stolen or Never There? New York Times A19

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Check 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Check 2003; Welker and Giessibl 2012).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Welker and Giessibl 2012)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Rheologica Acta
Abbreviation	Rheol. Acta
ISSN (print)	0035-4511
ISSN (online)	1435-1528
Scope	General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics