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

Durrer, R. 2006. Astronomy. Is the mystery of cosmic magnetic fields solved? Science (New York, N.Y.) 311, 787–788.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blackburn, T. M. & R. P. Duncan 2001. Determinants of establishment success in introduced birds. Nature 414, 195–197.

A journal article with 3 authors

de Jong, T., M. C. Linn & Z. C. Zacharia 2013. Physical and virtual laboratories in science and engineering education. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340, 305–308.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Kim, D., D. Park, S. Choi, et al. 2003. Thalamic control of visceral nociception mediated by T-type Ca2+ channels. Science (New York, N.Y.) 302, 117–119.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Du, D.-Z. & K.-I. Ko 2014. Theory of Computational Complexity. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Engquist, B. (ed) 2015. Encyclopedia of Applied and Computational Mathematics. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Trombini, G. 2014. Analysis of In-licensing Decisions at a Project and Firm-Level: Evidence from the Biopharmaceutical Industry. In Project-Based Knowledge in Organizing Open Innovation (eds) S. Bonesso, A. Comacchio & C. Pizzi, 69–84. London: 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

Andrew, E. 2014. Strange Reptile Fossil Discovered in China. IFLScience (available on-line: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/strange-reptile-fossil-discovered-china/, 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 2006. Gas Pipeline Safety: Preliminary Observations on the Integrity Management Program and 7-Year Reassessment Requirement. 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

Campbell, A. B. 2015. An analysis of the demography and habitat usage of Roatán’s spiny-tailed iguana, Ctenosaura oedirhina. Doctoral dissertation, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Almosawa, S. & N. Youssef 2017. Shattered Yemen Falls Victim to Another Deadly Enemy: Cholera. New York Times, 7 July, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Durrer 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Blackburn & Duncan 2001; Durrer 2006).

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

Two authors: (Blackburn & Duncan 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2003)

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