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

Tate, Christopher G. 2010. “Biochemistry. Membrane Protein Gymnastics.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328 (5986): 1644–1645.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kleinman, Claudia L., and Jacek Majewski. 2012. “Comment on ‘Widespread RNA and DNA Sequence Differences in the Human Transcriptome.’” Science (New York, N.Y.) 335 (6074): 1302; author reply 1302.

A journal article with 3 authors

Salter, Michael G., Keara A. Franklin, and Garry C. Whitelam. 2003. “Gating of the Rapid Shade-Avoidance Response by the Circadian Clock in Plants.” Nature 426 (6967): 680–683.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bai, Li-Ping, Masaki Hagihara, Kazuhiko Nakatani, and Zhi-Hong Jiang. 2014. “Recognition of Chelerythrine to Human Telomeric DNA and RNA G-Quadruplexes.” Scientific Reports 4 (October): 6767.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Carver, Richard H., and Kuo-Chung Tai. 2005. Modern Multithreading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Crowhurst, Michael, ed. 2015. Beginning Teachers: Reviewing Disastrous Lessons. Rotterdam: SensePublishers.

A chapter in an edited book

Geweniger, Verena, and Alexander Bohlander. 2014. “The Exercises.” In Pilates − A Teachers’ Manual: Exercises with Mats and Equipment for Prevention and Rehabilitation, edited by Alexander Bohlander, 57–148. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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

Fang, Janet. 2015. “Plant Disguises Seeds As Dung To Trick Beetles Into Dispersing Them.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/plant-disguises-seeds-dung-trick-beetles-dispersing-them/.

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. 2000. Intellectual Property: Deposits of Biological Materials in Support of Certain Patent Applications. GAO-01-49. 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

Chellamuthu, Vinodh Kumar. 2015. “Structured Population Models: Numerical Methods and Application to Frogs Infected with Chytridiomycosis.” Doctoral dissertation, Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Bordewich, Fergus M. 2017. “Debate Prep.” New York Times, August 14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tate 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Tate 2010; Kleinman and Majewski 2012).

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

Two authors: (Kleinman and Majewski 2012)
Three authors: (Salter, Franklin, and Whitelam 2003)
4 or more authors: (Bai et al. 2014)

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