How to format your references using the Rheologica Acta citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Rheologica 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	Download the output style file
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

Haase AT (2010) Targeting early infection to prevent HIV-1 mucosal transmission. Nature 464:217–223

A journal article with 2 authors

Aldecoa R, Marín I (2013) Surprise maximization reveals the community structure of complex networks. Sci Rep 3:1060

A journal article with 3 authors

Rignot E, Mouginot J, Scheuchl B (2011) Ice flow of the Antarctic ice sheet. Science 333:1427–1430

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zhang LI, Tan AYY, Schreiner CE, Merzenich MM (2003) Topography and synaptic shaping of direction selectivity in primary auditory cortex. Nature 424:201–205

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Early WF II (2010) Contractor and Client Relations to Assure Process Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Pohl V (2010) Advanced Topics in System and Signal Theory: A Mathematical Approach. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Rudolph-Cleff A (2016) Urban Interplay. In: Wang F, Prominski M (eds) Urbanization and Locality: Strengthening Identity and Sustainability by Site-Specific Planning and Design. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 75–94

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 Rheologica Acta.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015) How Accurate Is The Martian? 9 Things The Movie Got Right And Wrong. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-accurate-martian-9-things-movie-got-right-and-wrong/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

Government Accountability Office (1987) Representational Funds: State Department Expenditures at Selected Posts. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Litt D (2010) Social networking sites and adolescent alcohol use: The role of social images, social norms, and social comparison. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Greenhouse L (2007) U.S. Supreme Court Supports New York City’s Effort to Collect Taxes on Some U.N. Missions. New York Times B5

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Haase 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Haase 2010; Aldecoa and Marín 2013).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Aldecoa and Marín 2013)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Rheologica Acta
Abbreviation	Rheol. Acta
ISSN (print)	0035-4511
ISSN (online)	1435-1528
Scope	General Materials Science Condensed Matter Physics