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

Macilwain C (2000) Green Bank dish may be last of the giants. Nature 406:816

A journal article with 2 authors

Hager R, Johnstone RA (2003) The genetic basis of family conflict resolution in mice. Nature 421:533–535

A journal article with 3 authors

Theise ND, Krause DS, Sharkis S (2003) Comment on “Little evidence for developmental plasticity of adult hematopoietic stem cells.” Science 299:1317; author reply 1317

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Solomon DA, Kim T, Diaz-Martinez LA, et al (2011) Mutational inactivation of STAG2 causes aneuploidy in human cancer. Science 333:1039–1043

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maloberti F (2011) Understanding Microelectronics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom

An edited book

Omodeo EG, Policriti A (eds) (2016) Martin Davis on Computability, Computational Logic, and Mathematical Foundations. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Lekkas T (2014) Legal Pirates Ltd: Home Computing Cultures in Early 1980s Greece. In: Alberts G, Oldenziel R (eds) Hacking Europe: From Computer Cultures to Demoscenes. Springer, London, pp 73–103

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

O`Callaghan J (2017) Blue Origin Shows Off Its New Reusable Rocket To Take On SpaceX. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/blue-origin-shows-off-its-new-reusable-rocket-to-take-on-spacex/. 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 (1991) Telecommunications: GSA Should Improve Oversight of Small Business Contracting. 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

Dusenberry W (2017) Integrating depth psychology in adolescent court-mandated treatment facilities: Increasing treatment efficacy and client engagement. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Shpigel B (2016) On Field or Film, Nothing Gets by Him. New York Times B8

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; Hager and Johnstone 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hager and Johnstone 2003)
Three or more authors: (Solomon et al. 2011)

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