How to format your references using the Journal of the Society of Archivists citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Society of Archivists. 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

Koriat, Asher. “When Are Two Heads Better than One and Why?” Science (New York, N.Y.) 336, no. 6079 (April 20, 2012): 360–62.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buckley, S. A., and R. P. Evershed. “Organic Chemistry of Embalming Agents in Pharaonic and Graeco-Roman Mummies.” Nature 413, no. 6858 (October 25, 2001): 837–41.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mansouri, Farshad A., Mark J. Buckley, and Keiji Tanaka. “Mnemonic Function of the Dorsolateral Prefrontal Cortex in Conflict-Induced Behavioral Adjustment.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 318, no. 5852 (November 9, 2007): 987–90.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gusarov, Ivan, Konstantin Shatalin, Marina Starodubtseva, and Evgeny Nudler. “Endogenous Nitric Oxide Protects Bacteria against a Wide Spectrum of Antibiotics.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325, no. 5946 (September 11, 2009): 1380–84.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sehgal, Vivek. Supply Chain as Strategic Asset. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2011.

An edited book

Hromkovič, Juraj, Richard Královič, and Jan Vahrenhold, eds. Teaching Fundamentals Concepts of Informatics: 4th International Conference on Informatics in Secondary Schools - Evolution and Perspectives, ISSEP 2010, Zurich, Switzerland, January 13-15, 2010. Proceedings. Vol. 5941. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Losoncz, Alpár. “Spiritual Motivation in Management.” In Spirituality and Ethics in Management, edited by Laszlo Zsolnai, 75–94. Issues in Business Ethics. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2011.

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 Society of Archivists.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, Jonathan. “Astronomers Use ‘Light Echo’ To Measure Size Of Star’s Disk.” IFLScience. IFLScience, April 28, 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-use-light-echo-measure-size-stars-disk/.

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. “Payments in Lieu of Taxes for Federal Property.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, October 20, 1981.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Baciu, Alina B. “Biopolitics and the Influenza Pandemics of 1918 and 2009 in the United States: Power, Immunity, and the Law.” Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2010.

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

Kelly, Henry C. “Terrorism and the Biology Lab.” New York Times, July 2, 2003.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Society of Archivists
Abbreviation	J. Soc. Arch.
ISSN (print)	0037-9816
ISSN (online)	1465-3907
Scope	History Library and Information Sciences