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:

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 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

Check, Erika

2003

Cancer fears cast doubts on future of gene therapy. Nature 421(6924):678.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gouaux, Eric, and Roderick Mackinnon

2005

Principles of selective ion transport in channels and pumps. Science (New York, N.Y.) 310(5753):1461–1465.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kirchner, J. W., X. Feng, and C. Neal

2000

Fractal stream chemistry and its implications for contaminant transport in catchments. Nature 403(6769):524–527.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Marchewka, Astrid, David Cooper, Christian Lenser, Stephan Menzel, Hongchu Du, Regina Dittmann, Rafal E. Dunin-Borkowski, and Rainer Waser

2014

Determination of the electrostatic potential distribution in Pt/Fe:SrTiO₃/Nb:SrTiO₃ thin-film structures by electron holography. Scientific reports 4:6975.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flood, Joanne M.

2014

Practitioner’s Guide to GAAS 2014. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.

An edited book

Amils, Ricardo, Cynan Ellis-Evans, and Helmut Hinghofer-Szalkay (editors)

2007

Life in Extreme Environments. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Altman, Eitan, Konstantin Avrachenkov, Chadi Barakat, and Kartikeya Chandrayana

2007

A Multilevel Approach for the Modelling of Large TCP/IP Networks. In Recent Advances in Modeling and Simulation Tools for Communication Networks and Services, edited by A. Nejat Ince and Arnold Bragg, pp. 69–103. Springer US, Boston, MA.

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

Fang, Janet

2015

The Sharp-Shooting Skills of Archerfish Were Driven by Competition. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sharp-shooting-skills-archerfish-were-driven-competition/, 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

2013

TSA Explosives Detection Canine Program: Actions Needed to Analyze Data and Ensure Canine Teams Are Effectively Utilized. 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

Schaff, Sharon

2013

What characterizes and impacts student transformational learning in a community college work placement context. Unpublished Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Branch, John

2016

A Gladiator’s Guidance. New York Times, August 14, 2016.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Check 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Check 2003; Gouaux and Mackinnon 2005).

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

Two authors: (Gouaux and Mackinnon 2005)
Three or more authors: (Marchewka et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	American Antiquity
Abbreviation	Am. Antiq.
ISSN (print)	0002-7316
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) History Museology Archaeology