How to format your references using the Dialectical Anthropology citation style

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

Rosset, Peter. 2011. Preventing hunger: change economic policy. Nature 479: 472–473.

A journal article with 2 authors

McMichael, R. D., and M. D. Stiles. 2008. Physics. A new spin on the Doppler effect. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322: 386–387.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wurmser, Andrew E., Theo D. Palmer, and Fred H. Gage. 2004. Neuroscience. Cellular interactions in the stem cell niche. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304: 1253–1255.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Cole, Matthew T., Kenneth B. K. Teo, Oliver Groening, Laurent Gangloff, Pierre Legagneux, and William I. Milne. 2014. Deterministic cold cathode electron emission from carbon nanofibre arrays. Scientific reports 4: 4840.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martinelli, Russ J., James M. Waddell, and Tim J. Rahschulte. 2014. Program Management for Improved Business Results. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Awange, Joseph L. 2005. Solving Algebraic Computational Problems in Geodesy and Geoinformatics: The Answer to Modern Challenges. Edited by Erik W. Grafarend. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Badouel, Eric, Luca Bernardinello, and Philippe Darondeau. 2015. Variations of Elementary Net Synthesis. In Petri Net Synthesis, ed. Luca Bernardinello and Philippe Darondeau, 121–152. Texts in Theoretical Computer Science. An EATCS Series. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Dialectical Anthropology.

Blog post

Hale, Tom. 2016. These Guys Built Iron Man’s Laser Firing Gauntlet And Captain America’s Shield. IFLScience. IFLScience. May 12.

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. 2010. Intellectual Property: Observations on Efforts to Quantify the Economic Effects of Counterfeit and Pirated Goods. GAO-10-423. 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

Jenkins, Melissa M. 2009. Clinical decision-making and pediatric bipolar disorder. Doctoral dissertation, Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Cordes, Kelly. 2015. Mountaineering’s Greatest Climb Unravels. New York Times, February 22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rosset 2011).
This sentence cites two references (McMichael and Stiles 2008; Rosset 2011).

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

Two authors: (McMichael and Stiles 2008)
Three or more authors: (Cole et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Dialectical Anthropology
Abbreviation	Dialect. Anthropol.
ISSN (print)	0304-4092
ISSN (online)	1573-0786
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Sociology and Political Science Anthropology