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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives and Records. 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	Download the output style file
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

Smaglik, P. “United States Backs Soil Strategy in Fight against Global Warming.” Nature 406, no. 6796 (August 10, 2000): 549–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jain, Rakesh K., and Timothy P. Padera. “Development. Lymphatics Make the Break.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 299, no. 5604 (January 10, 2003): 209–10.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cohen, Jonathan C., Jay D. Horton, and Helen H. Hobbs. “Human Fatty Liver Disease: Old Questions and New Insights.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 332, no. 6037 (June 24, 2011): 1519–23.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Ji, Xu, Yuan Zhu, Mingming Chen, Longxing Su, Anqi Chen, Xuchun Gui, Rong Xiang, and Zikang Tang. “The Modulation of Grain Boundary Barrier in ZnMgO/ZnO Heterostructure by Surface Polar Liquid.” Scientific Reports 4 (February 25, 2014): 4185.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fabozzi, Frank J., and Pamela Peterson Drake. Finance. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2009.

An edited book

Demokritov, Sergej O., and Andrei N. Slavin, eds. Magnonics: From Fundamentals to Applications. Vol. 125. Topics in Applied Physics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Javed, Omar, and Mubarak Shah. “Tracking in Multiple Cameras with Disjoint Views.” In Automated Multi-Camera Surveillance: Algorithms and Practice, edited by Mubarak Shah, 1–26. The International Series in Video Computing. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2008.

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 Records.

Blog post

Luntz, Stephen. “Fireball Meteor Filmed Over Tennessee.” IFLScience. IFLScience, May 17, 2014.

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. “Electronic Government: Opportunities and Challenges Facing the FirstGov Web Gateway.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, October 2, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Tucker, Tanisha. “Psychoeducational Support Groups for Postadoptive Parents: A Grant-Writing Project.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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

Greenhouse, Linda. “Justices Reject ‘Class of One’ Argument.” New York Times, June 10, 2008.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives and Records
Abbreviation	Arch. Rec.
ISSN (print)	2325-7962
ISSN (online)	2325-7989
Scope	History