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

de Chadarevian, Soraya. 2003. Perceptions in science. The making of an icon. Science (New York, N.Y.) 300: 255–257.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brody, Herb, and Ilona Miko. 2012. Lenses on biology. Nature 483: S1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yoshida, Masa-Aki, Kei Yura, and Atsushi Ogura. 2014. Cephalopod eye evolution was modulated by the acquisition of Pax-6 splicing variants. Scientific reports 4: 4256.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Naik, A., O. Buu, M. D. LaHaye, A. D. Armour, A. A. Clerk, M. P. Blencowe, and K. C. Schwab. 2006. Cooling a nanomechanical resonator with quantum back-action. Nature 443: 193–196.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minoli, Daniel. 2004. A Networking Approach to Grid Computing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Edwards, Dylan, Gunilla Høyer-Hansen, Francesco Blasi, and Bonnie F. Sloane, ed. 2008. The Cancer Degradome: Proteases and Cancer Biology. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Treschev, Dmitry, and Oleg Zubelevich. 2010. Width of the Stochastic Layer. In Introduction to the Perturbation Theory of Hamiltonian Systems, ed. Oleg Zubelevich, 93–106. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. 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. 2013. Bacteria Can Take Up Ancient DNA. IFLScience. IFLScience. November 21.

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. 2009. Polar-Orbiting Environmental Satellites: With Costs Increasing and Data Continuity at Risk, Improvements Needed in Tri-agency Decision Making. GAO-09-564. 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

Beattie, Larry J. 2013. Meeting the Needs of Low Income Students. Doctoral dissertation, Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois 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

Higgins, Andrew. 2017. Putin Butts In to Claim There Were No Secrets, And Says He’ll Prove It. New York Times, May 17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Chadarevian 2003).
This sentence cites two references (de Chadarevian 2003; Brody and Miko 2012).

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

Two authors: (Brody and Miko 2012)
Three or more authors: (Naik et al. 2006)

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)