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:

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

Gursky, H. 2002. “X-ray astronomy-40 years on,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 297/5586 (2002), 1485–1486.

A journal article with 2 authors

Landisman, C. E. and B. W. Connors 2005. “Long-term modulation of electrical synapses in the mammalian thalamus,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 310/5755 (2005), 1809–1813.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aravind, L., V. M. Dixit, and E. V. Koonin 2001. “Apoptotic molecular machinery: vastly increased complexity in vertebrates revealed by genome comparisons,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 291/5507 (2001), 1279–1284.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fontanilla, D., M. Johannessen, A. R. Hajipour, N. V. Cozzi, M. B. Jackson, and A. E. Ruoho 2009. “The hallucinogen N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) is an endogenous sigma-1 receptor regulator,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 323/5916 (2009), 934–937.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stephanie Hammer 2013. Architects of Electronic Trading (Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2013).

An edited book

Srikanthan, T., J. Xue, and C.-H. Chang, eds., 2005. Advances in Computer Systems Architecture: 10th Asia-Pacific Conference, ACSAC 2005, Singapore, October 24-26, 2005. Proceedings, 3740th, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005).

A chapter in an edited book

Crivellaro, A. and F. H. Schweingruber 2013. “Identification keys,” in F. H. Schweingruber, ed., Atlas of Wood, Bark and Pith Anatomy of Eastern Mediterranean Trees and Shrubs: with a Special Focus on Cyprus (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013), 37–47.

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. New Species Of Tarantula Named After John Lennon IFLScience (IFLScience, 2014) <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/previously-undiscovered-tarantula-named-after-john-lennon/>, 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 2007. Hospital Quality Data: HHS Should Specify Steps and Time Frame for Using Information Technology to Collect and Submit Data ( No. GAO-07-320) (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2007).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Davis, P. J. 2009. A comparison of a high and low -performing school in the Soroti Catholic Diocese, Uganda, East -Africa, Doctoral dissertation, Scottsdale, AZ: Northcentral University (2009).

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

Estrin, J. 2017. “Stanley Greene, Whose Camera Captured the Brutality of War, Dies at 68,” New York Times (May 20, 2017), B7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Aethiopistische Forschungen
ISSN (print)	0170-3196
Scope