How to format your references using the Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic Spectroscopy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Spectrochimica Acta Part B: Atomic 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]

B. Horton, Applications matter, Nature 416 (2002) 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

G. Hutvágner, P.D. Zamore, A microRNA in a multiple-turnover RNAi enzyme complex, Science 297 (2002) 2056–2060.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Foulquier, U.M. Steckelings, T. Unger, Perspective: A tale of two receptors, Nature 493 (2013) S9.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

E. Lund, S. Güttinger, A. Calado, J.E. Dahlberg, U. Kutay, Nuclear export of microRNA precursors, Science 303 (2004) 95–98.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R.F. Barron, B.R. Barron, Design for Thermal Stresses, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

M. Giaquinta, Mathematical Analysis: Linear and Metric Structures and Continuity, Birkhäuser, Boston, MA, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

A.I. Ban, A.A. Bica, L. Coroianu, Metric Properties of the Extended Weighted Semi-trapezoidal Approximations of Fuzzy Numbers and Their Applications, in: S. Greco, B. Bouchon-Meunier, G. Coletti, M. Fedrizzi, B. Matarazzo, R.R. Yager (Eds.), Advances in Computational Intelligence: 14th International Conference on Information Processing and Management of Uncertainty in Knowledge-Based Systems, IPMU 2012, Catania, Italy, July 9-13, 2012, Proceedings, Part III, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 29–38.

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 B: Atomic Spectroscopy.

Blog post

[1]

K. Evans, Survey Off Alaska Discovers Multiple New Types of Deep Water-Dwelling Fish, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/survey-off-alaska-discovers-multiple-new-types-of-deep-waterdwelling-fish/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Solid Rocket Motors: Loss of Oxidizer Production Necessitates Emergency Allocation Procedures, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

K. Perelygin, Developing physics simulations with OpenCL on a graphics processing unit, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2012.

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]

D. Victor, Dismissed Breitbart Editor Blames Anti-Muslim Tweets, New York Times (2017) B3.

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 B: Atomic Spectroscopy
Abbreviation	Spectrochim. Acta Part B At. Spectrosc.
ISSN (print)	0584-8547
Scope	Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy Instrumentation Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics