How to format your references using the American Antiquity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Antiquity. 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	Download the output style file
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

Moran, Mary Ann. 2015. The Global Ocean Microbiome. Science (New York, N.Y.) 350(6266):aac8455.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fu, Yang-Xin, and Ursula Storb. 2002. Immunology. Autoreactive B Cells Migrate into T Cell Territory. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297(5589):2006–2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brad Adams, J., Michael E. Mann, and Caspar M. Ammann. 2003. Proxy Evidence for an El Niño-like Response to Volcanic Forcing. Nature 426(6964):274–278.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liu, Bin, Wuyuan Xie, Han Li, Yanrong Wang, Daoping Cai, Dandan Wang, Lingling Wang, Yuan Liu, Qiuhong Li, and Taihong Wang. 2014. Surrounding Sensitive Electronic Properties of Bi₂Te₃ Nanoplates-Potential Sensing Applications of Topological Insulators. Scientific Reports 4:4639.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Michaud, Thomas. 2017. Innovation, Between Science and Science Fiction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hawes, Jon M., and George B. Glisan (editors). 2015. Proceedings of the 1987 Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) Annual Conference. Developments in Marketing Science: Proceedings of the Academy of Marketing Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Li, Xin, Daryl Shannon, Indradeep Ghosh, Mizuhito Ogawa, Sreeranga P. Rajan, and Sarfraz Khurshid. 2008. Context-Sensitive Relevancy Analysis for Efficient Symbolic Execution. In Programming Languages and Systems: 6th Asian Symposium, APLAS 2008, Bangalore, India, December 9-11, 2008. Proceedings, edited by G. Ramalingam, pp. 36–52. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 American Antiquity.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2014. “FriendsOfScience” Organization Do Not Fucking Love Science. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/friendsofscience-organization-do-not-fucking-love-science/, accessed October 30, 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. 1976. NASA Designation of Their Ames Facility to Be Lead Center for Helicopter Research and Development. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Greene, Ashley E. 2012. An Inquiry into Workplace Incivility: Perceptions of Working Graduate Students. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Hubbard, Ben. 2017. Saudi Prince Rejects Talks With Iran. New York Times, May 2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moran 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Fu and Storb 2002; Moran 2015).

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

Two authors: (Fu and Storb 2002)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	American Antiquity
Abbreviation	Am. Antiq.
ISSN (print)	0002-7316
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) History Museology Archaeology