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

Aho, AV 2004, ‘Software and the future of programming languages’, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 303, no. 5662, pp. 1331–1333.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reinhart, BJ & Bartel, DP 2002, ‘Small RNAs correspond to centromere heterochromatic repeats’, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 297, no. 5588, p. 1831.

A journal article with 3 authors

Powell, KI, Chase, JM & Knight, TM 2013, ‘Invasive plants have scale-dependent effects on diversity by altering species-area relationships’, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 339, no. 6117, pp. 316–318.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Dulub, O, Batzilln, M, Solovev, S, Loginova, E, Alchagirov, A, Madey, TE & Diebold, U 2007, ‘Electron-induced oxygen desorption from the TiO2(011)-2x1 surface leads to self-organized vacancies’, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 317, no. 5841, pp. 1052–1056.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fjeld, RA, Eisenberg, NA & Compton, KL 2007, Quantitative Environmental Risk Analysis for Human Health, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Seidl, H (ed.) 2012, Programming Languages and Systems: 21st European Symposium on Programming, ESOP 2012, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2012, Tallinn, Estonia, March 24 - April 1, 2012. Proceedings, vol. 7211, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Atapattu, S, Tellambura, C & Jiang, H 2014, ‘Diversity Techniques and Cooperative Networks’, in Chintha Tellambura & Hai Jiang (eds), Energy Detection for Spectrum Sensing in Cognitive Radio, SpringerBriefs in Computer Science, Springer, New York, NY, pp. 63–83.

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

Davis, J 2017, Adults Are Having Less Sex Now Than They Were Two Decades Ago, IFLScience, IFLScience, viewed 30 October 2018, <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/adults-are-having-less-sex-now-than-they-were-two-decades-ago/>.

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 2001, Aviation Competition: Restricting Airline Ticketing Rules Unlikely to Help Consumers, GAO-01-831, 31 July, 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

Creed, CK 2017, ‘Identifying Controls on Patterns of Intermittent Streamflow in Three Streams of the American Southwest: A Geospatial Approach’, Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Hubbard, B & Fisher, I 2017, ‘President Puts Saudis at Core Of Peace Effort’, New York Times, 23 May, p. A1.

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
Scope