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

Reichhardt, T. (2000). NASA’s new environmental satellite shows its sensitive side. Nature, 404(6781), 913.

A journal article with 2 authors

Iwao, C., & Shidoji, Y. (2014). Induction of nuclear translocation of mutant cytoplasmic p53 by geranylgeranoic acid in a human hepatoma cell line. Scientific Reports, 4, 4419.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sogo, J. M., Lopes, M., & Foiani, M. (2002). Fork reversal and ssDNA accumulation at stalled replication forks owing to checkpoint defects. Science (New York, N.Y.), 297(5581), 599–602.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Iwano, S., Sugiyama, M., Hama, H., Watakabe, A., Hasegawa, N., Kuchimaru, T., Tanaka, K. Z., Takahashi, M., Ishida, Y., Hata, J., Shimozono, S., Namiki, K., Fukano, T., Kiyama, M., Okano, H., Kizaka-Kondoh, S., McHugh, T. J., Yamamori, T., Hioki, H., … Miyawaki, A. (2018). Single-cell bioluminescence imaging of deep tissue in freely moving animals. Science (New York, N.Y.), 359(6378), 935–939.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sluga, H. (2011). Wittgenstein. Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Schomburg, D., Schomburg, I., & Chang, A. (Eds.). (2007). Class 2 • Transferases IX: EC 2.7.1.38–2.7.1.112 (Second Edition, Vol. 36). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nagashima, Y., & Kunihiro, N. (2012). Faster Algorithm for Solving Hard Knapsacks for Moderate Message Length. In W. Susilo, Y. Mu, & J. Seberry (Eds.), Information Security and Privacy: 17th Australasian Conference, ACISP 2012, Wollongong, NSW, Australia, July 9-11, 2012. Proceedings (pp. 43–56). 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 Library Collections, Acquisitions and Technical Services.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, October 28). Watch Rhinos Being Dehorned To Save Their Lives. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rhinos-dehorned-save-their-lives/

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. (1982). Methodology Transfer Paper 3 (118985). 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

Ghafoori, E. (2014). Wavelet transform and neural network [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

ADAM LIPTAK; Janet Roberts contributed reporting for this series. She was assisted by Linda Amster, Styczynski, J., Anderson, D., Begg, J., Delaquérière, A., Jamison, S., Lyles, T., & Wilder, C. (2005, October 3). Locked Away Forever After Crimes as Teenagers. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reichhardt, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Iwao & Shidoji, 2014; Reichhardt, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Iwao & Shidoji, 2014)
Three authors: (Sogo et al., 2002)
6 or more authors: (Iwano et al., 2018)

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