How to format your references using the Aethiopica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aethiopica. 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

Collins, S. L. 2009. “Ecology. Biodiversity under global change,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 326/5958 (2009), 1353–1354.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hughes, A. L. and D. E. Gottschling 2012. “An early age increase in vacuolar pH limits mitochondrial function and lifespan in yeast,” Nature, 492/7428 (2012), 261–265.

A journal article with 3 authors

Neutel, A.-M., J. A. P. Heesterbeek, and P. C. De Ruiter 2002. “Stability in real food webs: weak links in long loops,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 296/5570 (2002), 1120–1123.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, W., J. Liu, L. Zhang, H. Xu, X. Guo, S. Deng, L. Liu, D. Yu, Y. Chen, and Z. Li 2014. “Generation of the SCN1A epilepsy mutation in hiPS cells using the TALEN technique,” Scientific reports, 4 (2014), 5404.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knudsen, S. 2005. Guide to Analysis of DNA Microarray Data (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005).

An edited book

Hunt, W. F. 2015. Plant Selection for Bioretention Systems and Stormwater Treatment Practices, eds. B. Lord, B. Loh, and A. Sia, SpringerBriefs in Water Science and Technology (Singapore: Springer, 2015).

A chapter in an edited book

Taylor, P., P. Ni, K. Liu, S. Guo, Z. Zhao, Y. Li, and H. Zhang 2016. “Social Research Finding TWO: Business Success Stories and Inspiration,” in P. Ni and K. Liu, eds., Global Research of Cities: A Case of Chengdu (Singapore: Springer, 2016), 91–170.

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 Aethiopica.

Blog post

Hale, T. This Autonomous Robot Performed Surgery On A Live Pig IFLScience (IFLScience, 2016) <https://www.iflscience.com/technology/autonomous-robot-performed-surgery-live-pig/>, accessed 30 October 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 2015. NASA: Assessments of Selected Large-Scale Projects [Reissued on March 26, 2015] ( No. GAO-15-320SP) (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2015).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Grace-McCaskey, C. A. 2012. Fishermen, Politics, and Participation: An Ethnographic Examination of Commercial Fisheries Management in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands, Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL: University of South Florida (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

Davis, J. H. and M. D. Shear 2017. “Team of Rivals At the Lectern For a President,” New York Times (July 22, 2017), A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Aethiopica
ISSN (print)	1430-1938
ISSN (online)	2194-4024
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