How to format your references using the Archives and Manuscripts citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives and Manuscripts. 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

Nelson, S 2008, ‘Big data: The Harvard computers’, Nature, vol. 455, no. 7209, pp. 36–37.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu, M & Ahlberg, PE 2004, ‘The origin of the internal nostril of tetrapods’, Nature, vol. 432, no. 7013, pp. 94–97.

A journal article with 3 authors

Silbergeld, E, Lerman, S & Hushka, L 2004, ‘Ethics. Human health research ethics’, Science (New York, N.Y.), vol. 305, no. 5686, p. 949.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Schafer, ZT, Grassian, AR, Song, L, Jiang, Z, Gerhart-Hines, Z, Irie, HY, Gao, S, Puigserver, P & Brugge, JS 2009, ‘Antioxidant and oncogene rescue of metabolic defects caused by loss of matrix attachment’, Nature, vol. 461, no. 7260, pp. 109–113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McMaster, MC 2007, HPLC, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kijima, K (ed.) 2015, Service Systems Science, vol. 2, Translational Systems Sciences, Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Subotic, V, Ferrer, R, Sancho, JC, Labarta, J & Valero, M 2011, ‘Quantifying the Potential Task-Based Dataflow Parallelism in MPI Applications’, in Emmanuel Jeannot, Raymond Namyst & Jean Roman (eds), Euro-Par 2011 Parallel Processing: 17th International Conference, Euro-Par 2011, Bordeaux, France, August 29 - September 2, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 39–51.

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 Archives and Manuscripts.

Blog post

Luntz, S 2014, This Worm Will Haunt Your Nightmares, IFLScience, IFLScience, viewed 30 October 2018, <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/worm-will-haunt-your-nightmares/>.

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 1997, IRS Systems Security and Funding: Additional Information on Employee Browsing and Tax Systems Modernization, AIMD/GGD-97-140R, 23 June, 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

Moore, DL 2012, ‘The Challenge Program: A quantitative analysis of strategies designed to eliminate the achievement gap’, 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

Hu, W 2016, ‘New Bronx District Attorney Fixes Her Sights on Rikers Island Cases’, New York Times, 5 March, p. A18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives and Manuscripts
ISSN (print)	0157-6895
ISSN (online)	2164-6058
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