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

Moran M (2014) WHO plans for neglected diseases are wrong. Nature 506:267

A journal article with 2 authors

Myers RA, Worm B (2003) Rapid worldwide depletion of predatory fish communities. Nature 423:280–283

A journal article with 3 authors

Weng J-K, Philippe RN, Noel JP (2012) The rise of chemodiversity in plants. Science 336:1667–1670

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen LX, Jäger WJ, Jennings G, et al (2001) Capturing a photoexcited molecular structure through time-domain x-ray absorption fine structure. Science 292:262–264

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nicholls DL, Piergrossi JC, Gibertoni C de S, Daniel MA (2013) Psychoanalytic Thinking in Occupational Therapy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Kendal SL (2007) An Introduction to Knowledge Engineering. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Hogan M, Tacke M (2010) Titanocenes: Cytotoxic and Anti-angiogenic Chemotherapy Against Advanced Renal-Cell Cancer. In: Jaouen G, Metzler-Nolte N (eds) Medicinal Organometallic Chemistry. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 119–140

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

Fang J (2016) Why Is Panda Poop Gooey In The Summertime? In: IFLScience. 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: The District of Columbia Remains Behind Schedule. 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

Obeng-Dompreh S (2008) The impact of servicemembers’ learning styles and computer anxiety levels on computer -mediated learning. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix

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

Greenhouse L (2007) Court to Weigh Disparities in Cocaine Laws. New York Times A15

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moran 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Myers and Worm 2003; Moran 2014).

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

Two authors: (Myers and Worm 2003)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al. 2001)

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