How to format your references using the Transactions of the American Philological Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transactions of the American Philological Association (TAPA). 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

Lightman, A. 2001. “In the Name of Love?” Nature 413 (6857) (October 18): 681.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jin, J., and MacMillan, D.W.C. 2015. “Alcohols as Alkylating Agents in Heteroarene C-H Functionalization.” Nature 525 (7567) (September 3): 87–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Frederickson, M.E., Greene, M.J., and Gordon, D.M. 2005. “Ecology: ‘Devil’s Gardens’ Bedevilled by Ants.” Nature 437 (7058) (September 22): 495–96.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Corrège, T., Gagan, M.K., Beck, J.W., Burr, G.S., Cabioch, G., and Le Cornec, F. 2004. “Interdecadal Variation in the Extent of South Pacific Tropical Waters during the Younger Dryas Event.” Nature 428 (6986) (April 29): 927–29.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ralph, D., and Graham, P. 2004. MMS: Technologies, Usage and Business Models. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Ehrig, H., Rensink, A., Rozenberg, G., and Schürr, A., ed. 2010. Graph Transformations: 5th International Conference, ICGT 2010, Enschede, The Netherlands, September 27–October 2, 2010. Proceedings. Vol. 6372. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Maggi, F., and Bendinelli, M. 2009. “Immunobiology of the Torque Teno Viruses and Other Anelloviruses.” In Villiers, E.-M. de and Hausen, H.Z. eds. TT Viruses: The Still Elusive Human Pathogens. Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. 65–90.

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 Transactions of the American Philological Association.

Blog post

Taub, B. 2016. “Caffeine May Protect Older Women From Dementia.” IFLScience. IFLScience. October 5.

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. 1977. “Summary of a Report: The National School Lunch Program, Is It Working?” PAD-77-7. 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

Desam, J.R. 2017. “Effective Nodal Placement in Overlay Networks Using Complexity Theory.” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: 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

de la MERCED, M.J., and Corkery, M. 2017. “Sale at Lord & Taylor: Start-Up Is Moving In.” New York Times, October 24.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Transactions of the American Philological Association
ISSN (print)	0360-5949
ISSN (online)	1533-0699
Scope	Language and Linguistics Classics Literature and Literary Theory Linguistics and Language