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

Macilwain C (2000) Budget crisis forces hard choices on US high-energy physics. Nature 404:909–910

A journal article with 2 authors

Shao Z, Haile SM (2004) A high-performance cathode for the next generation of solid-oxide fuel cells. Nature 431:170–173

A journal article with 3 authors

Marsh AG, Maxson RE Jr, Manahan DT (2001) High macromolecular synthesis with low metabolic cost in Antarctic sea urchin embryos. Science 291:1950–1952

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li YB, Wan X, Cai BG, et al (2014) Frequency-controls of electromagnetic multi-beam scanning by metasurfaces. Sci Rep 4:6921

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith JDH, Romanowska AB (1999) Post-Modern Algebra. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Crippen DW (ed) (2013) ICU Resource Allocation in the New Millennium: Will We Say “No”? Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Atkinson K, Han W (2012) Approximation Theory. In: Han W (ed) Spherical Harmonics and Approximations on the Unit Sphere: An Introduction. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 131–163

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 (2015) Not Everything Gives You Cancer, But Eating Too Much Processed Meat Certainly Can. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/not-everything-gives-you-cancer-eating-too-much-processed-meat-certainly-can/. 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 (2010) Higher Education: Stronger Federal Oversight Needed to Enforce Ban on Incentive Payments to School Recruiters. 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

Romano TA (2014) Time-frequency classification of gamma oscillatory activity in the frontoparietal system during working memory. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic 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

Schmidt MS (2013) Car Chase, White House To Capitol, Has Fatal End. New York Times A12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain 2000; Shao and Haile 2004).

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

Two authors: (Shao and Haile 2004)
Three or more authors: (Li 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

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