How to format your references using the Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Neuenschwander, P. (2004). Harnessing nature in Africa. Nature, 432(7019), 801–802.

A journal article with 2 authors

Temeles, E. J., & Kress, W. J. (2003). Adaptation in a plant-hummingbird association. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5619), 630–633.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sherman, D. H., Tsukamoto, S., & Williams, R. M. (2015). ORGANIC SYNTHESIS. Comment on “Asymmetric syntheses of sceptrin and massadine and evidence for biosynthetic enantiodivergence.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 349(6244), 149.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Ackerman, A. S., Kirkpatrick, M. P., Stevens, D. E., & Toon, O. B. (2004). The impact of humidity above stratiform clouds on indirect aerosol climate forcing. Nature, 432(7020), 1014–1017.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Edelstein, L. N., & Waehler, C. A. (2011). What Do I Say? John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lepri, S. (Ed.). (2016). Thermal Transport in Low Dimensions: From Statistical Physics to Nanoscale Heat Transfer (Vol. 921). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahmed, S. (2007). Application of Geostatistics in Hydrosciences. In M. Thangarajan (Ed.), Groundwater: Resource Evaluation, Augmentation, Contamination, Restoration, Modeling and Management (pp. 78–111). 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 Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, January 17). Spiders use electricity to catch prey and airborne particulates. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/spiders-use-electricity-catch-prey-and-airborne-particulates/

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. (1993). Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program (RCED-93-89R). 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

Grasis, J. A. (2008). Controlling T lymphocyte activation with a molecular rheostat [Doctoral dissertation]. University of California San Diego.

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

Casey, N. (2016, February 16). Pregnant and Facing Dilemma Over Zika. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Neuenschwander, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Neuenschwander, 2004; Temeles & Kress, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Temeles & Kress, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ackerman et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services
Abbreviation	Libr. Coll. Acquis. Tech. Serv.
ISSN (print)	1464-9055
Scope	Information Systems Library and Information Sciences