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

Covington, M 2005, ‘Applied physics. A ringing confirmation of spintronics theory’, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 307, no. 5707, pp. 215–216.

A journal article with 2 authors

Poulain, AJ & Barkay, T 2013, ‘Environmental science. Cracking the mercury methylation code’, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 339, no. 6125, pp. 1280–1281.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang, X, Zhou, Y & Xiao, M 2013, ‘Entangler via electromagnetically induced transparency with an atomic ensemble’, Scientific reports, vol. 3, p. 3479.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Kraft, ML, Weber, PK, Longo, ML, Hutcheon, ID & Boxer, SG 2006, ‘Phase separation of lipid membranes analyzed with high-resolution secondary ion mass spectrometry’, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 313, no. 5795, pp. 1948–1951.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cayuela Valencia, R 2013, The Future of the Chemical Industry by 2050, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Bebis, G, Boyle, R, Parvin, B, Koracin, D, Fowlkes, C, Wang, S, Choi, M-H, Mantler, S, Schulze, J, Acevedo, D, Mueller, K & Papka, M (eds) 2012, Advances in Visual Computing: 8th International Symposium, ISVC 2012, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, July 16-18, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Part II, vol. 7432, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Yadav, T, Mungray, AA & Mungray, AK 2014, ‘Fabricated Nanoparticles: Current Status and Potential Phytotoxic Threats’, in David M. Whitacre (ed.), Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology volume: With Cumulative and Comprehensive Index Subjects Covered Volumes 221-230, Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 83–110.

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 2015, Global Extinction Rates Could Be Way Higher Than Previously Thought, IFLScience, IFLScience, viewed 30 October 2018, <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/global-extinction-rates-might-be-way-higher-previously-thought/>.

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 1983, Review of the Upward Bound Program, HRD-83-19, 18 March, 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

Roberson, BN 2013, ‘Motivation towards learning perceived in Socratic seminar versus traditional lecture’, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Leland, J 2016, ‘Gloria Steinem Never Stops’, New York Times, 7 October, p. MB1.

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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