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How to format your references using the American Antiquity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Antiquity. 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.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
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
Rubin, Alan E.
2012
Planetary science. Fragments of the lunar cataclysm. Science (New York, N.Y.) 336(6087):1390–1391.
A journal article with 2 authors
Griffith, Simon C., and Robert Montgomerie
2003
Evolutionary biology: Why do birds engage in extra-pair copulation? Nature 422(6934):833; discussion 833-4.
A journal article with 3 authors
Lee, In-Hwan, Suyong Shin, and Tae-Lim Choi
2015
Materials science. Building supermicelles from simple polymers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 347(6228):1310–1311.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Gaggiotti, Oscar E., Felicity Jones, William M. Lee, William Amos, John Harwood, and Richard A. Nichols
2002
Patterns of colonization in a metapopulation of grey seals. Nature 416(6879):424–427.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Sutt, Jüri, Irene Lill, and Olev Müürsepp
2013
The Engineer’s Manual of Construction Site Planning. John Wiley & Sons, Oxford.
An edited book
Król, Dariusz, Lech Madeyski, and Ngoc Thanh Nguyen (editors)
2016
Recent Developments in Intelligent Information and Database Systems. 1st ed. 2016. Vol. 642. Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing, Cham.
A chapter in an edited book
Alves-Prado, Heloiza Ferreira, Daniela Alonso Bocchini, Eleni Gomes, Luis Carlos Baida, Jonas Contiero, Inês Conceição Roberto, and Roberto Da Silva
2007
Optimization of Cyclodextrin Glucanotransferase Production From Bacillus clausii E16 in Submerged Fermentation Using Response Surface Methodology. In Applied Biochemistry and Biotecnology: The Twenty-Eighth Symposium Proceedings of the Twenty-Eight Symposium on Biotechnology for Fuels and Chemicals Held April 30–May 3, 2006, in Nashville, Tennessee, edited by Jonathan R. Mielenz, K. Thomas Klasson, William S. Adney, and James D. McMillan, pp. 27–40. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

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 American Antiquity.

Blog post
Hale, Tom
2016
Why Only Some People Can Do These Ten “Tricks” With Their Body. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-only-some-people-can-do-these-ten-tricks-with-their-body/, 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
Government Accountability Office
1999
Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness of Medicare and the Health Care Sector. 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
Little, Kayla
2013
Using Ancient and Modern Fishes to Track Environmental Change in the Illinois River. Unpublished Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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
Wagner, James
2016
Reyes May Dabble in Outfield as Mets Seek More Versatility. New York Times, December 7, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rubin 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Griffith and Montgomerie 2003; Rubin 2012).

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

  • Two authors: (Griffith and Montgomerie 2003)
  • Three or more authors: (Gaggiotti et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal titleAmerican Antiquity
AbbreviationAm. Antiq.
ISSN (print)0002-7316
ScopeArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
History
Museology
Archaeology

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