How to format your references using the Archival Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archival Science. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Masocha W (2014) Paclitaxel-induced hyposensitivity to nociceptive chemical stimulation in mice can be prevented by treatment with minocycline. Sci Rep 4:6719

A journal article with 2 authors

Nathanson N, Fine P (2002) Virology. Poliomyelitis eradication--a dangerous endgame. Science 296:269–270

A journal article with 3 authors

Sackmann EK, Fulton AL, Beebe DJ (2014) The present and future role of microfluidics in biomedical research. Nature 507:181–189

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Boyd MM, Zelevinsky T, Ludlow AD, et al (2006) Optical atomic coherence at the 1-second time scale. Science 314:1430–1433

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jacobsson M, Niemegeers I, Heemstra de Groot S (2010) Personal Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Maugin GA, Metrikine AV (eds) (2010) Mechanics of Generalized Continua: One Hundred Years After the Cosserats, First. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Lefebvre C, Lim WK, Basso K, et al (2007) A Context-Specific Network of Protein-DNA and Protein-Protein Interactions Reveals New Regulatory Motifs in Human B Cells. In: Ideker T, Bafna V (eds) Systems Biology and Computational Proteomics: Joint RECOMB 2006 Satellite Workshops on Systems Biology and on Computational Proteomics, San Diego, CA, USA, December 1-3, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 42–56

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 Archival Science.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Deep Calls Or Big Balls? Howler Monkeys Are Either All Mouth, Or All Trousers. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2010) Health Information Technology: DOD Needs to Provide More Information on Risks to Improve Its Program Management. 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

Ho CW (2012) Music genre on the move: Discourse and the cultural production of Japanese visual rock in Hong Kong. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University

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

Kelly DA (2005) Keeping Your Computer and Its Contents Safe. New York Times 56

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Masocha 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Nathanson and Fine 2002; Masocha 2014).

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

Two authors: (Nathanson and Fine 2002)
Three or more authors: (Boyd et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archival Science
Abbreviation	Arch. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1389-0166
ISSN (online)	1573-7519
Scope	History Library and Information Sciences