How to format your references using the Art Libraries Society of North America: ARLIS/NA Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Art Libraries Society of North America: ARLIS/NA Reviews. 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

“Neurobiology: To Care or Not to Care” by Ivan Rodriguez. Nature. 509, no. 7500 (May 15, 2014).

A journal article with 2 authors

“Acceleration of Greenland Ice Mass Loss in Spring 2004” by Isabella Velicogna, and John Wahr. Nature. 443, no. 7109 (September 21, 2006).

A journal article with 3 authors

“Synaptotagmins I and IV Promote Transmitter Release Independently of Ca(2+) Binding in the C(2)A Domain” by Iain M. Robinson et al. Nature. 418, no. 6895 (July 18, 2002).

A journal article with 3 or more authors

“Self-Cleaning Metal Organic Framework (MOF) Based Ultra Filtration Membranes--a Solution to Bio-Fouling in Membrane Separation Processes” by J. A. Prince et al. Scientific Reports. 4 (October 9, 2014).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Microwaves in Organic and Medicinal Chemistry by C. Oliver Kappe et al. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, April 2012. ISBN 9783527647828.

An edited book

Asian/American Curricular Epistemicide: From Being Excluded to Becoming a Model Minority by Nicholas D. Hartlep. Edited by Daniel P. Scott. SensePublishers, 2016. XIV, 100 p p. ill. ISBN 9789463006392.

A chapter in an edited book

“Synthetic Evaluation Method of Electronic Visual Display Terminal Visual Performance Based on the Letter Search Task” by Wei Liu et al. In Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: 7th International Conference, VAMR 2015, Held as Part of HCI International 2015, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 2-7, 2015, Proceedings, edited by Randall Shumaker and Stephanie Lackey. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, 2015 ISBN 9783319210667 30–38.

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 Art Libraries Society of North America: ARLIS/NA Reviews.

Blog post

“Commonly Used Pesticide Has Detrimental Consequences On Bumblebee Foraging” by Elise Andrew. IFLScience. IFLScience, July 10, 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/commonly-used-pesticide-has-detrimental-consequences-bumblebee-foraging/.

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

“BIA and DOD Schools: Student Achievement and Other Characteristics Often Differ from Public Schools’” by Government Accountability Office. U.S. Government Printing Office, September 28, 2001.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

“A Mixed-Method Investigation of the Missouri Pre-Service Teacher Assessment Pilot Program at a Private Midwestern University” by Robyne Elder. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, 2015.

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

“Warning Signs in the Mind of a Pilot Determined to Die” by Nicholas Kulish, and Nicola Clark. New York Times, April 18, 2015.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Art Libraries Society of North America: ARLIS/NA Reviews
ISSN (print)	2374-4723
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