How to format your references using the Aethiopistische Forschungen citation style

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

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Potenza, M. 2015. “Perspective: Behavioural addictions matter,” Nature, 522/7557 (2015), S62.
A journal article with 2 authors
Thompson, J. N. and B. M. Cunningham 2002. “Geographic structure and dynamics of coevolutionary selection,” Nature, 417/6890 (2002), 735–738.
A journal article with 3 authors
Yeung, L. Y., J. L. Ash, and E. D. Young 2015. “Isotope geochemistry. Biological signatures in clumped isotopes of O₂,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 348/6233 (2015), 431–434.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Ruz, J. J., J. Tamayo, V. Pini, P. M. Kosaka, and M. Calleja 2014. “Physics of nanomechanical spectrometry of viruses,” Scientific reports, 4 (2014), 6051.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Promislow, S. D. 2010. Fundamentals of Actuarial Mathematics (Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2010).
An edited book
Mitchell-Walthour, G. L. and E. Hordge-Freeman, eds., 2016. Race and the Politics of Knowledge Production: Diaspora and Black Transnational Scholarship in the United States and Brazil (New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US, 2016).
A chapter in an edited book
Argoneto, P. and P. Renna 2011. “Bargaining Models in E-Marketplaces,” in P. Renna, ed., Innovative Tools for Business Coalitions in B2B Applications: How Negotiation, Auction and Game Theory Can Support Small- and Medium-sized Business in E-business (London: Springer, 2011), 65–82.

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 Aethiopistische Forschungen.

Blog post
Andrew, E. From Smokey Bear To Climate Change: The Future Of Wildland Fire Management IFLScience (IFLScience, 2015) <https://www.iflscience.com/environment/smokey-bear-climate-change-future-wildland-fire-management/>, 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 1998. Head Start: Research Insufficient to Assess Program Impact ( No. T-HEHS-98-126) (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Tuschall, A. 2017. Exploration of the Relationship Between Implicit Theory of Intelligence and Employability, Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University (2017).

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
Fitzsimmons, E. G. 2014. “For Families, Memories Mix With Fading Hope,” New York Times (March 9, 2014), A8.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal titleAethiopistische Forschungen
ISSN (print)0170-3196
Scope

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