How to format your references using the Arts citation style

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

Sage, L. Scope for Improvement. Nature 2001, 414, 4–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Anderson, C.A.; Bushman, B.J. Psychology. The Effects of Media Violence on Society. Science 2002, 295, 2377–2379.

A journal article with 3 authors

David, S.S.; O’Shea, V.L.; Kundu, S. Base-Excision Repair of Oxidative DNA Damage. Nature 2007, 447, 941–950.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, M.R.; Eckert, R.D.; Forberich, K.; Dennler, G.; Brabec, C.J.; Gaudiana, R.A. Solar Power Wires Based on Organic Photovoltaic Materials. Science 2009, 324, 232–235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adamowicz, Z.; Zbierski, P. Logic of Mathematics; John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 1997; ISBN 9781118032541.

An edited book

Nutrition Guide for Physicians; Wilson, T., Bray, G.A., Temple, N.J., Struble, M.B., Eds.; Nutrition and Health; Humana Press: Totowa, NJ, 2010; ISBN 9781603274302.

A chapter in an edited book

Hrušovský, M.; Noeres, K. Exploring the IT-Enabled Optimisation Potential of Cruise Excursions. In Cruise Management: Information and Decision Support Systems; Papathanassis, A., Breitner, M.H., Schoen, C., Guhr, N., Eds.; Gabler Verlag: Wiesbaden, 2012; pp. 105–113 ISBN 9783834932723.

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 Arts.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Early Trials for Next-Generation Artificial Skin Are a Success Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/early-trials-next-generation-artificial-skin-are-success/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Aviation Security: TSA Does Not Have Valid Evidence Supporting Most of the Revised Behavioral Indicators Used in Its Behavior Detection Activities; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2017;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sexton, S.M. Progress Toward Analytic Predictions of Supersonic Hydrocarbon-Air Combustion: Computation of Ignition Times and Supersonic Mixing Layers. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego: La Jolla, CA, 2017.

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

Nir, S.M. Behind Perfect Nails, Ailing Salon Workers. New York Times 2015, A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Arts
Abbreviation	Arts
ISSN (online)	2076-0752
Scope