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:

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

Larson, R. G.

2000

Fluid dynamics. Turbulence without inertia. Nature 405: 27–28.

A journal article with 2 authors

Parrish, D. D. and Zhu, T.

2009

Climate change. Clean air for megacities. Science (New York, NY) 326: 674–675.

A journal article with 3 authors

Álvarez, G. A.; Suter, D.; and Kaiser, R.

2015

QUANTUM SIMULATION. Localization-delocalization transition in the dynamics of dipolar-coupled nuclear spins. Science (New York, NY) 349: 846–848.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Holland, N. D.; Clague, D. A.; Gordon, D. P. et al.

2005

“Lophenteropneust” hypothesis refuted by collection and photos of new deep-sea hemichordates. Nature 434: 374–376.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pines, J. M.; Carpenter, C. R.; Raja, A. S. et al.

2012

Evidence-Based Emergency Care. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Schuck, P., ed.

2007

Protein Interactions: Biophysical Approaches for the Study of Complex Reversible Systems. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Sarma, K. V.; Ramasubramanian, K.; Srinivas, M. D. et al.

2008

Eclipse. Pp. 593–602 in Gaṇita-Yukti-Bhāṣā (Rationales in Mathematical Astronomy) of Jyeṣṭhadeva: Volume II - Astronomy, eds. K. Ramasubramanian, M. D. Srinivas, and M. S. Sriram. Gurgaon: Hindustan Book Agency.

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

Andrew, D.

2016

British Red Squirrels Are Suffering From An Outbreak Of Medieval Leprosy. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/british-red-squirrels-are-suffering-from-an-outbreak-of-medieval-leprosy/ (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

1998

Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Federal Depository Institution Regulators Are Making Progress, But Challenges Remain. 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

Ren, W.

2013

The Portrayal of Risk-taking Behaviors in Traffic on the Prime-time Television Series. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois 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

Billard, M.

2013

The Wildness of Clothes, but Not for Fashion. New York Times E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Larson 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Larson 2000; Parrish and Zhu 2009).

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

Two authors: (Parrish and Zhu 2009)
Three authors: (Álvarez, Suter, and Kaiser 2015)
4 or more authors: (Holland et al. 2005)

About the journal

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