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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
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
Corbyn, Zoë. 2011. Science education: Research on the reservation. Nature 471: 25–26.
A journal article with 2 authors
Pacala, S., and R. Socolow. 2004. Stabilization wedges: solving the climate problem for the next 50 years with current technologies. Science (New York, N.Y.) 305: 968–972.
A journal article with 3 authors
Verburg, Piet, Robert E. Hecky, and Hedy Kling. 2003. Ecological consequences of a century of warming in Lake Tanganyika. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301: 505–507.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
Treml, Benjamin E., Binit Lukose, Paulette Clancy, Detlef-M Smilgies, and Tobias Hanrath. 2014. Connecting the particles in the box--controlled fusion of hexamer nanocrystal clusters within an AB₆ binary nanocrystal superlattice. Scientific reports 4: 6731.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Masujima, Michio. 2005. Applied Mathematical Methods in Theoretical Physics. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
An edited book
Schofield, Norman. 2011. Leadership or Chaos: The Heart and Soul of Politics. Edited by Maria Gallego. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Isikman, Serhan O., Waheb Bishara, Onur Mudanyali, Ting-Wei Su, Derek Tseng, and Aydogan Ozcan. 2013. Lensfree Computational Microscopy Tools for On-Chip Imaging of Biochips. In Point-of-Care Diagnostics on a Chip, ed. David Issadore and Robert M. Westervelt, 71–96. Biological and Medical Physics, Biomedical Engineering. 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
Andrew, Elise. 2015. Astronomers Spot A Black Hole That Looks Just Like A Bullseye. IFLScience. IFLScience. July 13.

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. 1991. Tax System Modernization: Status of On-Line Files Initiative and Telecommunications Planning. IMTEC-91-41FS. 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
Purdioux, Lee. 2015. Predicting deception detection ability based on the concept of self-compassionate personality trait, openness personality structure, and agreeableness personality structure. Doctoral dissertation, Minneapolis, MN: 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
Crow, Kelly. 2002. Gently, Neighbors Want Statue to Find a Home. New York Times, April 28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Corbyn 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Pacala and Socolow 2004; Corbyn 2011).

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

  • Two authors: (Pacala and Socolow 2004)
  • Three or more authors: (Treml et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal titleDialectical Anthropology
AbbreviationDialect. Anthropol.
ISSN (print)0304-4092
ISSN (online)1573-0786
ScopeArts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
Sociology and Political Science
Anthropology

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