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

Triplett, B. (2000). Astronomers fume over night light. Nature, 405(6790), 987–988.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaufman, J., & Jing, J. (2002). China and AIDS--the time to act is now. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5577), 2339–2340.

A journal article with 3 authors

Myrskylä, M., Kohler, H.-P., & Billari, F. C. (2009). Advances in development reverse fertility declines. Nature, 460(7256), 741–743.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Robinson, L. F., Adkins, J. F., Keigwin, L. D., Southon, J., Fernandez, D. P., Wang, S.-L., & Scheirer, D. S. (2005). Radiocarbon variability in the western North Atlantic during the last deglaciation. Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5753), 1469–1473.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Monks, R. A. G., Reed Lajoux, A., & LeBaron, D. (2010). Corporate Valuation for Portfolio Investment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Chaki, N., & Cortesi, A. (Eds.). (2011). Computer Information Systems – Analysis and Technologies: 10th International Conference, CISIM 2011, Kolkata, India, December 14-16, 2011. Proceedings (Vol. 245). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Helfert, M., & Curley, M. (2012). Design Science in Action: Researching and Developing the IT-CMF. In M. Helfert & B. Donnellan (Eds.), Practical Aspects of Design Science: European Design Science Symposium, EDSS 2011, Leixlip, Ireland, October 14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers (pp. 50–59). 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, May 29). Jaw-Dropping Time-Lapse Of A Supercell. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/jaw-dropping-time-lapse-supercell/

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. (1972). Implementation of Section 203, Public Law 91-441, on Payments for Independent Research and Development and Bid and Proposal Costs (B-167034). 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

Myers, K. E. (2012). The First Determination of the Proton’s Weak Charge Through Parity-Violating Asymmetry Measurements in Elastic e + p and e + Al Scattering [Doctoral dissertation]. George Washington University.

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

Walsh, M. W. (2010, November 13). Shudders in Market For Municipal Bonds. New York Times, B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Triplett, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kaufman & Jing, 2002; Triplett, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Kaufman & Jing, 2002)
Three authors: (Myrskylä et al., 2009)
6 or more authors: (Robinson et al., 2005)

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

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