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How to format your references using the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR). 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Bankaitis, V. A.
2002
Cell biology. Slick recruitment to the Golgi. Science (New York, NY) 295: 290–291.
A journal article with 2 authors
Stephenson, N. L. and Das, A. J.
2011
Comment on “Changes in climatic water balance drive downhill shifts in plant species’ optimum elevations.” Science (New York, NY) 334: 177; author reply 177.
A journal article with 3 authors
Rougier, G. W.; Forasiepi, A. M.; and Martinelli, A. G.
2005
Comment on “Independent origins of middle ear bones in monotremes and therians” (II). Science (New York, NY) 309: 1492; author reply 1492.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Allen, C. D. C.; Okada, T.; Tang, H. L. et al.
2007
Imaging of germinal center selection events during affinity maturation. Science (New York, NY) 315: 528–531.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Bonneau, D.; Fatu, A.; and Souchet, D.
2014
Thermo-Hydrodynamic Lubrication in Hydrodynamic Bearings. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Manolis, G. D. and Polyzos, D., eds.
2009
Recent Advances in Boundary Element Methods: A Volume to Honor Professor Dimitri Beskos. 1st ed. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.
A chapter in an edited book
Deen, M.; Heynen, E. J. E.; Schouten, B. et al.
2014
Games [4Therapy] Project: Let’s talk! Pp. 15–26 in Games for Health 2014: Proceedings of the 4th conference on gaming and playful interaction in healthcare, eds. B. Schouten, S. Fedtke, M. Schijven, et al. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden.

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 Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

Blog post
Fang, J.
2016
Why Is Panda Poop Gooey In The Summertime? IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/what-are-there-gooey-masses-panda-poop/ (accessed October 30, 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
1996
Transportation Issue Area Plan--Fiscal Years 1995-97. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Pelletier, J. M.
2017
Effects of Data Breaches on Sector-Wide Systematic Risk in Financial, Technology, Healthcare and Services Sectors. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University.

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
Cooper, M.
2017
Spotlight on a Diva, With Bull’s-Eye Precision. New York Times C5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Bankaitis 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Bankaitis 2002; Stephenson and Das 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

  • Two authors: (Stephenson and Das 2011)
  • Three authors: (Rougier, Forasiepi, and Martinelli 2005)
  • 4 or more authors: (Allen et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal titleBulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
ISSN (print)0003-097X
Scope

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