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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Running, Steven W. 2006. Climate change. Is global warming causing more, larger wildfires? Science (New York, N.Y.) 313: 927–928.

A journal article with 2 authors

Drake, Michael J., and Kevin Righter. 2002. Determining the composition of the Earth. Nature 416: 39–44.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lavine, Marc, Phillip Szuromi, and Robert Coontz. 2011. Materials for grid energy. Electricity now and when. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.) 334: 921.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Xu, He-Xiu, Guang-Ming Wang, Zui Tao, and Tie Jun Cui. 2014. High-directivity emissions with flexible beam numbers and beam directions using gradient-refractive-index fractal metamaterial. Scientific reports 4: 5744.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Spotte, Stephen. 2016. Tarpons. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Corti, Horacio R., and Ernesto R. Gonzalez, ed. 2014. Direct Alcohol Fuel Cells: Materials, Performance, Durability and Applications. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Keller, Deborah S., and Conor P. Delaney. 2014. SILS Total Colectomy and Proctocolectomy with Ileal Pouch-Anal Anastomosis (IPAA). In Single Incision Laparoscopic and Transanal Colorectal Surgery, ed. Wai Lun Law and Conor P. Delaney, 29–33. New York, NY: 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

Hamilton, Kristy. 2016. Scientist At Work: Revealing The Secret Lives Of Urban Rats. IFLScience. IFLScience. September 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. 1970. Disposable Glassware for Laboratory Work. 092114. 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

Simmons, Carol Ivy. 2017. A Logistic Regression Analysis of Multiple Independent Variables Impacting Psychiatric Readmissions. 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

Giordano, Mary Ann. 2013. New Frontier for Topics In Science: Social Media. New York Times, January 1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Running 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Drake and Righter 2002; Running 2006).

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

Two authors: (Drake and Righter 2002)
Three or more authors: (Xu 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