How to format your references using the Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

[1]

R.W. Park, Anthropology. Stories of Arctic colonization, Science 345 (2014) 1004–1005.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.H. Eberly, T. Yu, Physics. The end of an entanglement, Science 316 (2007) 555–557.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

M.I. McCormick, S.-A. Watson, P.L. Munday, Ocean acidification reverses competition for space as habitats degrade, Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 3280.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

D. Jia, R.Z. Jurkowska, X. Zhang, A. Jeltsch, X. Cheng, Structure of Dnmt3a bound to Dnmt3L suggests a model for de novo DNA methylation, Nature 449 (2007) 248–251.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.T. Kudnig, B. Séguin, Veterinary Surgical Oncology, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,., West Sussex, UK, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

A.-T. Tymieniecka, ed., Timing and Temporality in Islamic Philosophy and Phenomenology of Life, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

C. Hou, S. Chang, J. Lin, D. Song, Combined Perforator Flaps, in: S. Chang, J. Lin, D. Song (Eds.), Surgical Atlas of Perforator Flaps: A Microsurgical Dissection Technique, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2015: pp. 27–30.

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 Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, New Particle Discovered At The Large Hadron Collider, IFLScience (2015).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Federal Vehicle Fleets: Adopting Leading Practices Could Improve Management, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2013.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

C. Williams, It’s not a beauty pageant!: An examination of leadership development through Alaska native pageants, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 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

[1]

J. Koblin, Stewart And HBO Pull the Plug On a Project, New York Times (2017) B2.

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	Spectrochimica Acta Part A: Molecular and Biomolecular Spectroscopy
Abbreviation	Spectrochim. Acta A Mol. Biomol. Spectrosc.
ISSN (print)	1386-1425
Scope	Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy Instrumentation Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics