How to format your references using the Arts citation style

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

Fan, X. Astronomy. Black Holes at the Cosmic Dawn. Science 2003, 300, 752–753.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hansson, G.K.; Björkholm, M. Medicine. Tackling Two Diseases with HDL. Science 2010, 328, 1641–1642.

A journal article with 3 authors

Armitage, J.J.; Collier, J.S.; Minshull, T.A. The Importance of Rift History for Volcanic Margin Formation. Nature 2010, 465, 913–917.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kovac, J.M.; Leitch, E.M.; Pryke, C.; Carlstrom, J.E.; Halverson, N.W.; Holzapfel, W.L. Detection of Polarization in the Cosmic Microwave Background Using DASI. Degree Angular Scale Interferometer. Nature 2002, 420, 772–787.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benitez, M.; Davidson, J.; Flaxman, L. Small Schools, Big Ideas; Jossey-Bass: San Francisco, CA, USA, 2009; ISBN 9781118269374.

An edited book

Anticoagulation Management: A Guidebook for Pharmacists; Rose, A., Ed.; 1st ed. 2015.; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2015; ISBN 9783319226019.

A chapter in an edited book

Enarson, E. Two Solitudes, Many Bridges, Big Tent: Women’s Leadership in Climate and Disaster Risk Reduction. In Research, Action and Policy: Addressing the Gendered Impacts of Climate Change; Alston, M., Whittenbury, K., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013; pp. 63–74 ISBN 9789400755178.

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 Arts.

Blog post

Davis, J. Gene-Editing Technique CRISPR-Cas9 May Be Causing Hundreds Of Genetic Mutations (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Efforts to Assist the Homeless in Seattle; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1994;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Fisher, A.-C. Exceptionality and Parent -Professional Conflict: Causes, Prevention and Resolution. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ, 2009.

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

Kanter, J. Europeans Vote to Alter Visa Rules of Americans. New York Times 2017, A6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Arts
Abbreviation	Arts
ISSN (online)	2076-0752
Scope