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]

J. Kaiser, TOXICOLOGY: Panel Urges Further Study of Biotech Corn, Science. 290 (2000) 1867a.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J.B. Cotner, E.K. Hall, Comment on “A bacterium that can grow by using arsenic instead of phosphorus,” Science. 332 (2011) 1149; author reply 1149.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

H. Vais, J.K. Foskett, D.-O.D. Mak, InsP3R channel gating altered by clustering?, Nature. 478 (2011) E1-2; discussion E2-3.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

R.J. Carol, S. Takeda, P. Linstead, M.C. Durrant, H. Kakesova, P. Derbyshire, S. Drea, V. Zarsky, L. Dolan, A RhoGDP dissociation inhibitor spatially regulates growth in root hair cells, Nature. 438 (2005) 1013–1016.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

S.H. Voldman, ESD, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2006.

An edited book

[1]

T. Borangiu, ed., Advances in Robot Design and Intelligent Control: Proceedings of the 24th International Conference on Robotics in Alpe-Adria-Danube Region (RAAD), 1st ed. 2016, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H.J. Teoh, T.-L. Chen, C.-H. Cheng, Frequency-Weighted Fuzzy Time-Series Based on Fibonacci Sequence for TAIEX Forecasting, in: T. Washio, Z.-H. Zhou, J.Z. Huang, X. Hu, J. Li, C. Xie, J. He, D. Zou, K.-C. Li, M.M. Freire (Eds.), Emerging Technologies in Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining: PAKDD 2007 International Workshops Nanjing, China, May 22-25, 2007 Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: pp. 27–34.

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, Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out What This Weird Rogue Object In Our Galaxy Is, IFLScience. (2017).

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, Polar Weather Satellites: NOAA Is Working to Ensure Continuity but Needs to Quickly Address Information Security Weaknesses and Future Program Uncertainties, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Y. Pan, Long-Term Effects of Higher-Quality Early Childhood Education for At-Risk Children on Their Later Development and Resilience, Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, 2010.

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]

K. Feeney, Irish Soda Bread, Family Style, New York Times. (2011) NJ10.

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

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