How to format your references using the Aethiopistische Forschungen citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Aethiopistische Forschungen. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Russo, E. 2002. “Biodefence research,” Nature, 416/6882 (2002), 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koch, S. W. and A. Knorr 2001. “Applied physics. Optics in the nano-world,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 293/5538 (2001), 2217–2218.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bugreev, D. V., O. M. Mazina, and A. V. Mazin 2006. “Rad54 protein promotes branch migration of Holliday junctions,” Nature, 442/7102 (2006), 590–593.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bechtluft, P., R. G. H. van Leeuwen, M. Tyreman, D. Tomkiewicz, N. Nouwen, H. L. Tepper, A. J. M. Driessen, and S. J. Tans 2007. “Direct observation of chaperone-induced changes in a protein folding pathway,” Science (New York, N.Y.), 318/5855 (2007), 1458–1461.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, B. and D. Qiu 2014. Sneak Circuits of Power Electronic Converters (Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, 2014).

An edited book

Fox, E. A., E. J. Neuhold, P. Premsmit, and V. Wuwongse, eds., 2005. Digital Libraries: Implementing Strategies and Sharing Experiences: 8th International Conference on Asian Digital Libraries, ICADL 2005, Bangkok, Thailand, December 12-15, 2005. Proceedings, 3815th, Lecture Notes in Computer Science (Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005).

A chapter in an edited book

Luo, G., H. M. Jin, L. Bin, H.-Y. Wang, X. Huang, H. Zhou, L. Zhu, J. Yang, Q. Wang, X. Xiang, and N. Chen 2015. “Abnormal Development of the Vagina,” in L. Zhu, F. Wong, and J. Lang, eds., Atlas of Surgical Correction of Female Genital Malformation (Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2015), 85–206.

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 Aethiopistische Forschungen.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. Astronomers Discovered Where A Radio Burst Is From For The First Time IFLScience (IFLScience, 2017) <https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-discovered-where-a-radio-burst-is-from-for-the-first-time/>, accessed 30 October 2018.

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 1998. Charter Schools: Recent Experiences in Accessing Federal Funds ( No. T-HEHS-98-129) (Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1998).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mocilnikar, G. E. 2011. Playing with movies: An examination of the interactions between music and film in “Fantasie for horn and film,” Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach (2011).

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

Norton, M. B. 2013. “A House of Her Own,” New York Times (October 20, 2013), BR14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Aethiopistische Forschungen
ISSN (print)	0170-3196
Scope