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

Schulz, M. Materials Science. Speeding up Artificial Muscles. Science 2012, 338, 893–894.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jasny, B.R.; Zahn, L.M. Genome-Sequencing Anniversary. A Celebration of the Genome, Part I. Science 2011, 331, 546.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brohawn, S.G.; del Mármol, J.; MacKinnon, R. Crystal Structure of the Human K2P TRAAK, a Lipid- and Mechano-Sensitive K+ Ion Channel. Science 2012, 335, 436–441.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Westphal, V.; Rizzoli, S.O.; Lauterbach, M.A.; Kamin, D.; Jahn, R.; Hell, S.W. Video-Rate Far-Field Optical Nanoscopy Dissects Synaptic Vesicle Movement. Science 2008, 320, 246–249.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Potter, L. The Life of William Shakespeare; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2012; ISBN 9781118231746.

An edited book

Thermal Infrared Remote Sensing: Sensors, Methods, Applications; Kuenzer, C., Dech, S., Eds.; Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2013; Vol. 17; ISBN 9789400766389.

A chapter in an edited book

Sinclair, J.; Boyatt, R.; Foss, J.; Rocks, C. A Tale of Two Modes: Initial Reflections on an Innovative MOOC. In Learning Technology for Education in Cloud. MOOC and Big Data: Third International Workshop, LTEC 2014, Santiago, Chile, September 2-5, 2014. Proceedings; Uden, L., Sinclair, J., Tao, Y.-H., Liberona, D., Eds.; Communications in Computer and Information Science; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2014; pp. 49–60 ISBN 9783319106700.

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

Andrew, E. Solar Activity At Birth Could Influence Our Lifespan Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/solar-activity-birth-could-influence-our-lifespan/ (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 Federal Retirement Processing: Applying Information Technology Acquisition Best Practices Could Help OPM Overcome a Long History of Unsuccessful Modernization Efforts; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2014;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Eakman, T.L. Education Level and Critical Thinking Skills Among Substance Use Counselors Nationwide: A Descriptive Comparative Study. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University: Minneapolis, MN, 2017.

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

Wagner, J. Dodgers’ Turner Delivers Decisive Final Blow in a Battle of Bullpens. New York Times 2017, D4.

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