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

Norreys, P. A. 2010. Physics. Controlling implosion symmetry around a deuterium-tritium target. Science (New York, N.Y.) 327, 1208–1210.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shinbrot, T. & F. J. Muzzio 2001. Noise to order. Nature 410, 251–258.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hägglund, C., M. Grätzel & B. Kasemo 2003. Comment on ‘efficient photochemical water splitting by a chemically modified n-TiO2’ (II). Science (New York, N.Y.) 301, 1673; discussion 1673.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Volkmann, N., K. J. Amann, S. Stoilova-McPhie, et al. 2001. Structure of Arp2/3 complex in its activated state and in actin filament branch junctions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293, 2456–2459.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reason, B., L. Løvlie & M. Brand Flu 2015. Service Design for Business. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bilheux, H. Z., R. McGreevy & I. S. Anderson (eds) 2009. Neutron Imaging and Applications: A Reference for the Imaging Community. (Neutron Scattering Applications and Techniques). Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Koulaouzidis, A., S. Douglas & J. N. Plevris 2014. Oesophageal Capsule Endoscopy. In Handbook of Capsule Endoscopy (eds) Z. Li, Z. Liao & M. McAlindon, 119–128. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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

Fang, J. 2015. Bright Flash, Possibly a Meteor, Blazed Over New Zealand. IFLScience (available on-line: https://www.iflscience.com/space/bright-flash-possibly-meteor-blazed-over-new-zealand/, 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 1976. Assistance Provided for the Construction of Higher Education Academic Facilities. 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

Laskey, E. 2013. Plasma glucagon during development of insulin resistance among healthy individuals. 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. 2007. Savoir Fair. New York Times, 2 December, 6150.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Norreys 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Norreys 2010; Shinbrot & Muzzio 2001).

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

Two authors: (Shinbrot & Muzzio 2001)
Three or more authors: (Volkmann et al. 2001)

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

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