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

Cook-Deegan R (2011) Public health. Boosting health services research. Science 333:1384–1385

A journal article with 2 authors

Doak DF, Morris WF (2010) Demographic compensation and tipping points in climate-induced range shifts. Nature 467:959–962

A journal article with 3 authors

Jasny BR, Zahn LM, Marshall E (2009) Complex systems and networks. Connections. Introduction. Science 325:405

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kanemaki M, Sanchez-Diaz A, Gambus A, Labib K (2003) Functional proteomic identification of DNA replication proteins by induced proteolysis in vivo. Nature 423:720–724

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Urick VJ Jr, Mckinney JD, Williams KJ (2015) FUNDAMENTALS OF MICROWAVE PHOTONICS. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ritsner MS (ed) (2013) Polypharmacy in Psychiatry Practice, Volume II: Use of Polypharmacy in the “Real World.” Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Roy U, Majumder M (2016) Methodology. In: Majumder M (ed) Impact of Climate Change on Small Scale Hydro-turbine Selections. Springer, Singapore, pp 13–18

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 E (2014) Awesome Flying Car Prototype Unveiled. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/awesome-flying-car-prototype-unveiled/. 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 (1977) Alternative to Project Seafarer. 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

Johnson S (2017) Searching for Identity and Truth: How Letter Writing Creates Identity in Victorian Literature. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Lehman S (2017) A Times Reporter Gets a Surprise Trip to Prison. New York Times A2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cook-Deegan 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Doak and Morris 2010; Cook-Deegan 2011).

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

Two authors: (Doak and Morris 2010)
Three or more authors: (Kanemaki et al. 2003)

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