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 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

[1]

R.H. Brown Jr, Developmental biology. Neuron research leaps ahead, Science 321 (2008) 1169–1170.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

D.Y. Oh, J.M. Olefsky, Medicine. Wnt fans the flames in obesity, Science 329 (2010) 397–398.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E. Brooks-Pollock, G.O. Roberts, M.J. Keeling, A dynamic model of bovine tuberculosis spread and control in Great Britain, Nature 511 (2014) 228–231.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

J.E. Dixon, L. Leist, C. Langmuir, J.-G. Schilling, Recycled dehydrated lithosphere observed in plume-influenced mid-ocean-ridge basalt, Nature 420 (2002) 385–389.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P.I. Good, J.W. Hardin, Common Errors in Statistics (And How to Avoid Them), John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2012.

An edited book

[1]

R.D. Grijs, R.M. González Delgado, eds., Starbursts: From 30 Doradus to Lyman Break Galaxies, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H.U. Simon, Spectral Norm in Learning Theory: Some Selected Topics, in: L. Todorovski, N. Lavrač, K.P. Jantke (Eds.), Discovery Science: 9th International Conference, DS 2006, Barcelona, Spain, October 7-10, 2006. Proceedings, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2006: pp. 16–16.

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]

E. Andrew, How Viruses Can Fool The Immune System, 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, Airline Competition: Pending Legislation Helps to Address Serious Competitive Problems, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

N.D. Fearrington, The relationship between fathers’ pre -natal involvement with the mother and post -natal involvement with the child(ren), Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2008.

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]

S. Kishkovsky, C.D. Shea, Chat With Putin Was a Hoax, New York Times (2015) A14.

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