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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Macilwain C (2000) NSF celebrates half a century with big plans. Nature 405:8

A journal article with 2 authors

Moscou MJ, Bogdanove AJ (2009) A simple cipher governs DNA recognition by TAL effectors. Science 326:1501

A journal article with 3 authors

Hainzl T, Huang S, Sauer-Eriksson AE (2002) Structure of the SRP19 RNA complex and implications for signal recognition particle assembly. Nature 417:767–771

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sakaguchi K, Shimizu T, Horaguchi S, et al (2013) In vitro engineering of vascularized tissue surrogates. Sci Rep 3:1316

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dooner DB (2012) Kinematic Geometry of Gearing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bona C (2009) Elements of Numerical Relativity and Relativistic Hydrodynamics: From Einstein’ s Equations to Astrophysical Simulations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Baba S, Ma Q (2016) Analyzing Relationships of Listed Companies with Stock Prices and News Articles. In: Hartmann S, Ma H (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications: 27th International Conference, DEXA 2016, Porto, Portugal, September 5-8, 2016, Proceedings, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 27–34

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

Taub B (2016) Mutilated Child Skeletons Hint At Human Sacrifice In Pre-Columbian Peru. 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 (2016) Aviation Security: Airport Perimeter and Access Control Security Would Benefit from Risk Assessment and Strategy Updates. 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

Mayner SW (2017) Transformational leadership and organizational change during agile and devops initiatives. Doctoral dissertation, Capella 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

Walsh MW (2013) S.&P. Seeks Dismissal of U.S. Civil Suit Over Rating of Mortgage Debt. New York Times B3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Macilwain 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Macilwain 2000; Moscou and Bogdanove 2009).

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

Two authors: (Moscou and Bogdanove 2009)
Three or more authors: (Sakaguchi et al. 2013)

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