How to format your references using the Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging. 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

Flower, R.: The man who knew doses. Nature. 406, 831 (2000)

A journal article with 2 authors

Shirey, S.B., Richardson, S.H.: Start of the Wilson cycle at 3 Ga shown by diamonds from subcontinental mantle. Science. 333, 434–436 (2011)

A journal article with 3 authors

Vidale, J.E., Dodge, D.A., Earle, P.S.: Slow differential rotation of the Earth’s inner core indicated by temporal changes in scattering. Nature. 405, 445–448 (2000)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, B., Bhatt, D., Oltvai, Z.N., Greenberger, J.S., Bahar, I.: Significance of p53 dynamics in regulating apoptosis in response to ionizing radiation, and polypharmacological strategies. Sci. Rep. 4, 6245 (2014)

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leroy, L.: Eyestrain Reduction in Stereoscopy. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2016)

An edited book

Riviello, M.T.: On the Perception of Dynamic Emotional Expressions: A Cross-cultural Comparison. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2016)

A chapter in an edited book

Nicolini, C., Lepri, B., Teso, S., Passerini, A.: From On-Going to Complete Activity Recognition Exploiting Related Activities. In: Salah, A.A., Gevers, T., Sebe, N., and Vinciarelli, A. (eds.) Human Behavior Understanding: First International Workshop, HBU 2010, Istanbul, Turkey, August 22, 2010. Proceedings. pp. 26–37. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2010)

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 Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging.

Blog post

Andrews, R.: World’s Oldest Orca Returns To Washington State Coast In “High Spirits”

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: Nextgen Air Transportation System: Mechanisms for Collaboration and Technology Transfer Could Be Enhanced to More Fully Leverage Partner Agency and Industry Resources. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2011)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Valdovinos, G.: Entre familia (among family): A parent training and social support program for Latino families. A grant proposal, (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

Koblin, J.: Actor Takes On Netflix Over Documentary on Drug Kingpin, (2017)

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	Advanced Structural and Chemical Imaging
Abbreviation	Adv. Struct. Chem. Imaging
ISSN (online)	2198-0926
Scope