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

Ray A (2005) Plant genetics: RNA cache or genome trash? Nature 437:E1-2; discussion E2

A journal article with 2 authors

Aronson SJ, Rehm HL (2015) Building the foundation for genomics in precision medicine. Nature 526:336–342

A journal article with 3 authors

Caro E, Castellano MM, Gutierrez C (2007) A chromatin link that couples cell division to root epidermis patterning in Arabidopsis. Nature 447:213–217

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gross L, Mohn F, Moll N, et al (2009) The chemical structure of a molecule resolved by atomic force microscopy. Science 325:1110–1114

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rizzi TE, Valenciano A, Bowles M, et al (2017) Atlas of Canine and Feline Urinalysis. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Yin X, Struik PC (eds) (2016) Crop Systems Biology: Narrowing the gaps between crop modelling and genetics, 1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Lu C-J (2009) On the Security Loss in Cryptographic Reductions. In: Joux A (ed) Advances in Cryptology - EUROCRYPT 2009: 28th Annual International Conference on the Theory and Applications of Cryptographic Techniques, Cologne, Germany, April 26-30, 2009. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 72–87

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

Fang J (2014) Why Parrots Have Unusually Large Brains. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-parrots-have-unusually-large-brains/. 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 (1997) Surface Transportation: Prospects for Innovation Through Research, Intelligent Transportation Systems, State Infrastructure Banks, and Design-Build 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

Ott WH (2017) An Analysis of the Coordinated Implementation of Digitally-Aided Close Air Support: An Integrated Systems Engineering and Test & Evaluation Approach. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington 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

Crow K (2001) Neighbors Say an S.R.O. Is O.K., Just Make It Better. New York Times 145

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ray 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Ray 2005; Aronson and Rehm 2015).

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

Two authors: (Aronson and Rehm 2015)
Three or more authors: (Gross et al. 2009)

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