How to format your references using the Art Libraries Society of North America: ARLIS/NA Reviews citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Art Libraries Society of North America: ARLIS/NA Reviews. 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

“Case of the Stolen Enigma Machine Takes Cryptic Turn” by N. Loder. Nature. 407, no. 6802 (September 21, 2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

“Power Laws. Are Hospital Waiting Lists Self-Regulating?” by D. P. Smethurst, and H. C. Williams. Nature. 410, no. 6829 (April 5, 2001).

A journal article with 3 authors

“Thermal Barrier Coatings for Gas-Turbine Engine Applications” by Nitin P. Padture et al. Science (New York, N.Y.). 296, no. 5566 (April 12, 2002).

A journal article with 3 or more authors

“A Role for Ghrelin in the Central Regulation of Feeding” by M. Nakazato et al. Nature. 409, no. 6817 (January 11, 2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Introduction to Integral Calculus by Ulrich L. Rohde et al. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., November 2011. ISBN 9781118130346.

An edited book

Family Firms in Transition: Case Studies on Succession, Inheritance, and Governance by Alan L. Carsrud. Edited by Malin Brännback. SpringerBriefs in Business. Springer, 2012. XI, 122 p. 3 illus p. ill. ISBN 9781461412007.

A chapter in an edited book

“Context and Action in Search Interfaces” by Alan Dix. In Search Computing: Trends and Developments, edited by Stefano Ceri and Marco Brambilla. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2011 ISBN 9783642196676 35–45.

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 Art Libraries Society of North America: ARLIS/NA Reviews.

Blog post

“Alcoholism Treatment May Bring HIV Out Of Hiding” by Elise Andrew. IFLScience. IFLScience, November 18, 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/trial-shows-alcoholism-treatment-may-bring-hiv-out-hiding/.

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

“Olympic Security: Better Planning Can Enhance U.S. Support to Future Olympic Games” by Government Accountability Office. U.S. Government Printing Office, June 30, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

“Interpreting Architecture: A Krauszian Approach” by Richard N. Fox. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2009.

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

“Saudi Official Who Fell From View Is Promoted” by Ben Hubbard, and Eric Schmitt. New York Times, July 21, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Art Libraries Society of North America: ARLIS/NA Reviews
ISSN (print)	2374-4723
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