How to format your references using the Archives and Manuscripts citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives and Manuscripts. 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

Woods, CG 2004, ‘Neuroscience. Crossing the midline’, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 304, no. 5676, pp. 1455–1456.

A journal article with 2 authors

Drake, MJ & Righter, K 2002, ‘Determining the composition of the Earth’, Nature, vol. 416, no. 6876, pp. 39–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sainsbury, S, Niesser, J & Cramer, P 2013, ‘Structure and function of the initially transcribing RNA polymerase II-TFIIB complex’, Nature, vol. 493, no. 7432, pp. 437–440.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

O’Neal, CJ, Jobling, MG, Holmes, RK & Hol, WGJ 2005, ‘Structural basis for the activation of cholera toxin by human ARF6-GTP’, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 309, no. 5737, pp. 1093–1096.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Butler, KC 2016, Multinational Finance, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hanus, M (ed.) 2009, Logic-Based Program Synthesis and Transformation: 18th International Symposium, LOPSTR 2008, Valencia, Spain, July 17-18, 2008, Revised Selected Papers, vol. 5438, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Xie, H, Onal, C, Régnier, S & Sitti, M 2012, ‘Nanomechanics of AFM Based Nanomanipulation’, in Cagdas Onal, Stéphane Régnier & Metin Sitti (eds), Atomic Force Microscopy Based Nanorobotics: Modelling, Simulation, Setup Building and Experiments, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 87–143.

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 Archives and Manuscripts.

Blog post

Andrew, D 2015, Here’s What Caffeine Does To Your Brain, IFLScience, IFLScience, viewed 30 October 2018, <https://www.iflscience.com/brain/what-caffeine-does-brain/>.

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 2014, U.S. Merchant Marine: Maritime Administration Should Assess Potential Mariner-Training Needs, GAO-14-212, 31 January, 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

Anyaoha, AL 2013, ‘Surgical time-out: A nursing team training approach’, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Johnson, G 2015, ‘Science, Lost in a Legal Maze’, New York Times, 24 March, p. D3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives and Manuscripts
ISSN (print)	0157-6895
ISSN (online)	2164-6058
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