How to format your references using the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI). 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

Sarewitz, D. 2015. CRISPR: Science can’t solve it. Nature 522, 413–414.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hazen, R. M. & E. Roedder 2001. Biogeology. How old are bacteria from the Permian age? Nature 411, 155–156.

A journal article with 3 authors

González-Gutiérrez, J., J. L. Carrillo-Estrada & J. C. Ruiz-Suárez 2014. Penetration of granular projectiles into a water target. Scientific reports 4, 6762.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Kapoor, A., M. S. Goldberg, L. K. Cumberland, et al. 2010. The histone variant macroH2A suppresses melanoma progression through regulation of CDK8. Nature 468, 1105–1109.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morley, D. 2017. Communications and Mobility. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Epstein, G. S. 2007. Endogenous Public Policy and Contests (ed S. Nitzan). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mora, T. & E. Orsini 2009. Decoding Cyclic Codes: the Cooper Philosophy. In Gröbner Bases, Coding, and Cryptography (eds) M. Sala, S. Sakata, T. Mora, C. Traverso & L. Perret, 69–91. 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 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. 2016. NASA Still Plans To Practice Saving Earth From An Asteroid, Even Without ESA’s Help. IFLScience (available on-line: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-still-plans-to-practice-saving-earth-from-an-asteroid-even-without-esas-help/, accessed 30 October 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 1988. ADP Budget Analysis: SSA’s Information Systems Funding for Fiscal Years 1988 and 1989. 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

Belletti, A. 2017. Trumpet Practice: Habits and Goals. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Feeney, K. 2008. Growing More Diverse. New York Times, 28 September, NJ11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sarewitz 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hazen & Roedder 2001; Sarewitz 2015).

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

Two authors: (Hazen & Roedder 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kapoor et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Abbreviation	J. R. Anthropol. Inst.
ISSN (print)	1359-0987
ISSN (online)	1467-9655
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology