How to format your references using the Archive for History of Exact Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archive for History of Exact Sciences. 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

Chapman, Tim. 2003. Seeing is believing. Nature 425: 867–873.

A journal article with 2 authors

Villaume, Matthew T., and Phil S. Baran. 2014. Organic chemistry: Reactivity tamed one bond at a time. Nature 513: 324–325.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harper, Shannon M., Lori C. Neil, and Kevin H. Gardner. 2003. Structural basis of a phototropin light switch. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301: 1541–1544.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Arranz, Alicia, Di Dong, Shouping Zhu, Charalambos Savakis, Jie Tian, and Jorge Ripoll. 2014. In-vivo optical tomography of small scattering specimens: time-lapse 3D imaging of the head eversion process in Drosophila melanogaster. Scientific reports 4: 7325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Engle, Carole R., Kwamena K. Quagrainie, and Madan M. Dey. 2016. Seafood and Aquaculture Marketing Handbook. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Thomas, Kenneth S. 2012. U. S. Spacesuits. Edited by Harold J. McMann. Springer Praxis Books. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Marreiros, Goreti, Ricardo Santos, and Carlos Ramos. 2010. GLSS – Group Learning in Shared Spaces Considering Aspects Like Emotion and Personality. In Ambient Intelligence and Future Trends-International Symposium on Ambient Intelligence (ISAmI 2010), ed. Juan Carlos Augusto, Juan M. Corchado, Paulo Novais, and Cesar Analide, 37–44. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Berlin, Heidelberg: 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 Archive for History of Exact Sciences.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Should You Rely On First Instincts When Answering A Multiple Choice Exam? IFLScience. IFLScience. September 4.

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. 2006. Telecommunications: Weaknesses in Procedures and Performance Management Hinder Junk Fax Enforcement. GAO-06-425. 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

Janowiecki, Steven. 2015. The evolutionary status of high and extremely low surface brightness dwarf galaxies. Doctoral dissertation, Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Feeney, Kelly. 2006. QUICK BITE/Chatham; A Cupful Of Vienna. New York Times, June 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chapman 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Chapman 2003; Villaume and Baran 2014).

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

Two authors: (Villaume and Baran 2014)
Three or more authors: (Arranz et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Abbreviation	Arch. Hist. Exact Sci.
ISSN (print)	0003-9519
ISSN (online)	1432-0657
Scope	History and Philosophy of Science Mathematics (miscellaneous)