How to format your references using the American Review of Canadian Studies citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Review of Canadian Studies. 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

Kasahara, Junzo. 2002. “Geophysics. Tides, Earthquakes, and Volcanoes.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 297 (5580): 348–349.

A journal article with 2 authors

Iyer, Shrivats M., and Scott L. Delp. 2014. “Neuroscience. Optogenetic Regeneration.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 344 (6179): 44–45.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaeberlein, Matt, Peter S. Rabinovitch, and George M. Martin. 2015. “Healthy Aging: The Ultimate Preventative Medicine.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 350 (6265): 1191–1193.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Jepsen, Kristen, Derek Solum, Tianyuan Zhou, Robert J. McEvilly, Hyun-Jung Kim, Christopher K. Glass, Ola Hermanson, and Michael G. Rosenfeld. 2007. “SMRT-Mediated Repression of an H3K27 Demethylase in Progression from Neural Stem Cell to Neuron.” Nature 450 (7168): 415–419.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bartlett, Kenneth. 2016. The Experience of History. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ohtsu, Masayasu, ed. 2016. Innovative AE and NDT Techniques for On-Site Measurement of Concrete and Masonry Structures: State-of-the-Art Report of the RILEM Technical Committee 239-MCM. Vol. 20. RILEM State-of-the-Art Reports. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Cesare, Silvio, and Yang Xiang. 2012. “Formal Methods of Program Analysis.” In Software Similarity and Classification, edited by Yang Xiang, 29–39. SpringerBriefs in Computer Science. London: Springer.

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 Review of Canadian Studies.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “New Eye Drops Can Dissolve Cataracts With No Need For Surgery.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/one-step-closer-cataract-dissolving-eye-drops/.

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. 2004. Mass Transit: FTA Needs to Better Define and Assess Impact of Certain Policies on New Starts Program. GAO-04-748. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Slayton, Kristen A. 2013. “A Psychoeducational Support Group for Families of Youth Experiencing Symptoms of Schizophrenia: A Grant Proposal.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Cowen, Tyler. 2014. “The Technological Fix to Inequality.” New York Times, December 6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kasahara 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kasahara 2002; Iyer and Delp 2014).

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

Two authors: (Iyer and Delp 2014)
Three authors: (Kaeberlein, Rabinovitch, and Martin 2015)
4 or more authors: (Jepsen et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	American Review of Canadian Studies
Abbreviation	Am. Rev. Can. Stud.
ISSN (print)	0272-2011
ISSN (online)	1943-9954
Scope	Earth-Surface Processes Geography, Planning and Development