How to format your references using the Analytica Chimica Acta citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Analytica Chimica Acta. 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]

C.M. Dobson, Getting out of shape, Nature 418 (2002) 729–730.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Trampert, H.J. van Heijst, Global azimuthal anisotropy in the transition zone, Science 296 (2002) 1297–1299.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S. Moeller, W.A. Freiwald, D.Y. Tsao, Patches with links: a unified system for processing faces in the macaque temporal lobe, Science 320 (2008) 1355–1359.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

K. Kikuchi, K. Terauchi, M. Wada, H.-Y. Hirano, The plant MITE mPing is mobilized in anther culture, Nature 421 (2003) 167–170.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.D. Waye, J. Aisenberg, P.H. Rubin, Practical Colonoscopy, Blackwell Publishing Ltd., Oxford, UK, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

A. Kramer, M. Merrow, eds., Circadian Clocks, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

E.K. Bongmba, A.E. Akinade, Dislodgings and Reformation: Expanding Christianity in Africa and in the Diaspora, in: E. Padilla, P.C. Phan (Eds.), Christianities in Migration: The Global Perspective, Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, 2016: pp. 55–70.

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 Analytica Chimica Acta.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, This Is What Caused The Most Powerful Eruption In Human History, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/caused-most-powerful-eruption-human-history/ (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, Public Radio and the Role of Federal Funding, 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

[1]

E.K. Kraka, Assessment of herbicides for control of non-native species: Italian ryegrass (Lolium perenne spp. multiflorum ), tropical spiderwort (Commelina benghalensis), and tropical soda apple (Solanum viarum), Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, 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]

M.J.O. Murphy, The Rise of Modigliani’s Profile, and the Asking Prices for His Works, New York Times (2015) C36.

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	Analytica Chimica Acta
Abbreviation	Anal. Chim. Acta
ISSN (print)	0003-2670
Scope	Biochemistry Analytical Chemistry Spectroscopy Environmental Chemistry