How to format your references using the Annual Review of Anthropology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Anthropology. 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

Ruth T. 2009. Accelerating production of medical isotopes. Nature. 457(7229):536–37

A journal article with 2 authors

Robertson MP, Scott WG. 2007. The structural basis of ribozyme-catalyzed RNA assembly. Science. 315(5818):1549–53

A journal article with 3 authors

Nishida N, Katamine S, Manuelidis L. 2005. Reciprocal interference between specific CJD and scrapie agents in neural cell cultures. Science. 310(5747):493–96

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Shalini A, Liu Y, Al-Jarah UAS, Srivastava GP, Wright CD, et al. 2013. Observation of T₂-like coherent optical phonons in epitaxial Ge₂Sb₂Te₅/GaSb(001) films. Sci. Rep. 3:2965

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Serval J-F, Tranié J-P. 2014. The Monetary System. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Erfurt-Cooper P, ed. 2014. Volcanic Tourist Destinations. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Bhardwaj R, Sharma I, Kanwar M, Sharma R, Handa N, et al. 2013. LEA Proteins in Salt Stress Tolerance. In Salt Stress in Plants: Signalling, Omics and Adaptations, eds. P Ahmad, MM Azooz, MNV Prasad, pp. 79–112. New York, NY: 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 Annual Review of Anthropology.

Blog post

Davis J. 2015. Blood Protein Could Predict Development of Alzheimer’s. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1984. Compensation by 12 Aerospace Contractors. NSIAD-85-1, 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

Quinn L. 2013. The poetics of soul: Mythic narrative as creative elegy. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Cowen T. 2016. More Time to Unwind, Unless You’re a Woman. New York Times, June 3, , p. BU3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ruth 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Robertson & Scott 2007; Ruth 2009).

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

Two authors: (Robertson & Scott 2007)
Three or more authors: (Shalini et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Anthropology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Anthropol.
ISSN (print)	0084-6570
ISSN (online)	1545-4290
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology Cultural Studies