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

Erwin, D. H. 2015. RETROSPECTIVE. Eric Davidson (1937-2015). Science (New York, N.Y.) 350, 517.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schachman, H. K. & M. Cassman 2009. Retrospective. Ruth L. Kirschstein (1926-2009). Science (New York, N.Y.) 326, 947.

A journal article with 3 authors

Izawa, Y., D. Pun & S. S. Stahl 2011. Palladium-catalyzed aerobic dehydrogenation of substituted cyclohexanones to phenols. Science (New York, N.Y.) 333, 209–213.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Zhou, Z.-H., T. Wild, Y. Xiong, et al. 2013. Polyreactive antibodies plus complement enhance the phagocytosis of cells made apoptotic by UV-light or HIV. Scientific reports 3, 2271.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arduin, P.-E., M. Grundstein & C. Rosenthal-Sabroux 2015. Information and Knowledge System. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Thaung, K. S. (ed) 2012. Advanced Information Technology in Education, vol. 126. (Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

De, A., R. Bose, A. Kumar & S. Mozumdar 2014. Food Contamination and Wastage by Insects. In Targeted Delivery of Pesticides Using Biodegradable Polymeric Nanoparticles (eds) R. Bose, A. Kumar & S. Mozumdar, 11–13. (SpringerBriefs in Molecular Science). New Delhi: Springer India.

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

Hamilton, K. 2015. Wolves Are Better At Problem-Solving Tasks Than Dogs. IFLScience (available on-line: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/are-wolves-better-problem-solving-tasks-dogs/, 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 2014. Child Welfare: Federal Agencies Can Better Support State Efforts to Prevent and Respond to Sexual Abuse by School Personnel. 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

Bryan, D. 2015. Facilitators or impediments to college readiness. 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

Yablonsky, L. 2008. The Hebrew School. New York Times, 16 November, M280.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Erwin 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Erwin 2015; Schachman & Cassman 2009).

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

Two authors: (Schachman & Cassman 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zhou et al. 2013)

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