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

Bottjer, David J.

2012

Geochemistry. Life in the Early Triassic ocean. Science (New York, N.Y.) 338(6105):336–337.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crowley, Thomas J., and William T. Hyde

2008

Transient nature of late Pleistocene climate variability. Nature 456(7219):226–230.

A journal article with 3 authors

Church, George M., Yuan Gao, and Sriram Kosuri

2012

Next-generation digital information storage in DNA. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337(6102):1628.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zubieta, Jon-Kar, Mary M. Heitzeg, Yolanda R. Smith, Joshua A. Bueller, Ke Xu, Yanjun Xu, Robert A. Koeppe, Christian S. Stohler, and David Goldman

2003

COMT val158met genotype affects mu-opioid neurotransmitter responses to a pain stressor. Science (New York, N.Y.) 299(5610):1240–1243.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Henderson, Timothy J.

2011

Beyond Borders. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Scaglione, Mariano

2008

Imaging nelle urgenze vascolari — Body: Casi clinici. Edited by Luigia Romano and Antonio Rotondo. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Martin, David, Mark Rouncefield, and Wes Sharrock

2007

Complex Organisational Responsibilities: The Ladbroke Grove Rail Inquiry. In Responsibility and Dependable Systems, edited by Guy Dewsbury and John Dobson, pp. 66–87. Springer, London.

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

Evans, Katy

2017

Women’s Blood Pressure Before Pregnancy Could Determine The Sex Of Their Baby. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/womens-blood-pressure-before-pregnancy-could-determine-the-sex-of-their-baby/, 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

1991

Aviation Safety: Problems Persist in FAA’s Inspection Program. 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

Jones, Erica

2019

Leadership Practices in K-12 Public Schools for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing Students: A Qualitative Study. Unpublished Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Grynbaum, Michael M.

2017

MSNBC Surges to an Unfamiliar Spot: No. 1. New York Times, June 6, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bottjer 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bottjer 2012; Crowley and Hyde 2008).

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

Two authors: (Crowley and Hyde 2008)
Three or more authors: (Zubieta et al. 2003)

About the journal

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