How to format your references using the Archive for History of Exact Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 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

Scully, Tony. 2014. Public health: Society at large. Nature 508: S50-1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Finke, Deborah L., and William E. Snyder. 2008. Niche partitioning increases resource exploitation by diverse communities. Science (New York, N.Y.) 321: 1488–1490.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hansen, B., W. R. Turrell, and S. Østerhus. 2001. Decreasing overflow from the Nordic seas into the Atlantic Ocean through the Faroe Bank channel since 1950. Nature 411: 927–930.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Yu, Haohai, Huaijin Zhang, Yicheng Wang, Zhengping Wang, Jiyang Wang, and V. Petrov. 2013. Generation of crystal-structure transverse patterns via a self-frequency-doubling laser. Scientific reports 3: 1085.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hampel, Frank R., Elvezio M. Ronchetti, Peter J. Rousseeuw, and Werner A. Stahel. 2005. Robust Statistics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Preedy, Victor R., and Vinood B. Patel, ed. 2015. General Methods in Biomarker Research and their Applications. Biomarkers in Disease: Methods, Discoveries and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Sousa, Maurício, Daniel Mendes, Daniel Medeiros, Alfredo Ferreira, João Madeiras Pereira, and Joaquim Jorge. 2016. Remote Proxemics. In Collaboration Meets Interactive Spaces, ed. Craig Anslow, Pedro Campos, and Joaquim Jorge, 47–73. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Archive for History of Exact Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. Stem Cell Breakthrough Edges Scientists Closer To Effective Treatment For Type 1 Diabetes. IFLScience. IFLScience. October 10.

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. 1996. Telecommunications: Competitive Impact of Restructuring the International Satellite Organizations. RCED-96-204. 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

Hinchey, Bruce Andrew. 2010. Punishing the Penitent: Disproportionate Fines in Recent FCPA Enforcements and Suggested Improvements. Doctoral dissertation, Washington, DC: 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

Hodara, Susan. 2014. An Eye for the 20th Century. New York Times, November 23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scully 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Finke and Snyder 2008; Scully 2014).

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

Two authors: (Finke and Snyder 2008)
Three or more authors: (Yu et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Abbreviation	Arch. Hist. Exact Sci.
ISSN (print)	0003-9519
ISSN (online)	1432-0657
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science Mathematics (miscellaneous)