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

Rogers, John A. 2012. Materials science. Nanometer-scale printing. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337: 1459–1460.

A journal article with 2 authors

Verstreken, P., and H. J. Bellen. 2001. Neuroscience. The meaning of a mini. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293: 443–444.

A journal article with 3 authors

Balazs, Anna C., Todd Emrick, and Thomas P. Russell. 2006. Nanoparticle polymer composites: where two small worlds meet. Science (New York, N.Y.) 314: 1107–1110.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Heinrich, A. J., C. P. Lutz, J. A. Gupta, and D. M. Eigler. 2002. Molecule cascades. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298: 1381–1387.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tian, Jeff. 2005. Software Quality Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Amerio, Luigi, ed. 2011. Equazioni differenziali astratte. Vol. 29. C.I.M.E. Summer Schools. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lykousis, V., K. Nittis, D. Ballas, L. Perivoliotis, D. Kassis, P. Pagonis, and D. Sakellariou. 2015. The Hellenic deep sea observatory: Science objectives and implementation. In SEAFLOOR OBSERVATORIES: A New Vision of the Earth from the Abyss, ed. Laura Beranzoli and Angelo De Santis, 81–103. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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. 2015. Little Farmer, Big Pharma: The Quest To Modify Plants To ‘Grow’ Medicines. IFLScience. IFLScience. October 19.

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. 1971. Fees Allowed Nonsponsored Not-for-Profit Organizations by Various Government Agencies. B-146810. 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

Rostambeigi, Narges. 2010. Analyzing the correlates of patients’ adoption of preventative health services: Perceived risk, cost and availability of health care services. Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Yablonsky, Linda. 2011. Imps of the Perverse. New York Times, September 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rogers 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Verstreken and Bellen 2001; Rogers 2012).

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

Two authors: (Verstreken and Bellen 2001)
Three or more authors: (Heinrich et al. 2002)

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)