How to format your references using the Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research (BASOR). 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

Angell, C. A.

2008

Insights into phases of liquid water from study of its unusual glass-forming properties. Science (New York, NY) 319: 582–587.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cloetingh, S. and Haq, B. U.

2015

Sea level change. Inherited landscapes and sea level change. Science (New York, NY) 347: 1258375.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yin, J.; Yang, X.; and Zheng, Y.

2014

Influence of increasing combustion temperature on the AMS 14C dating of modern crop phytoliths. Scientific reports 4: 6511.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Leroy, E. M.; Kumulungui, B.; Pourrut, X. et al.

2005

Fruit bats as reservoirs of Ebola virus. Nature 438: 575–576.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lueder, E.

2011

3D Displays. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Gilbert-Barness, E. and Debich-Spicer, D. E., eds.

2005

Handbook of Pediatric Autopsy Pathology. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Fugini, M. G.; Maggiolini, P.; and Valles, R. S.

2014

Employment Services in Catalonia. Pp. 37–56 in e-Government and Employment Services: A Case Study in Effectiveness, eds. P. Maggiolini, and R. S. Valles. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research.

Blog post

Fang, J.

2015

Protein That Can Edit Other Proteins Without DNA Blueprint Discovered. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/protein-directs-protein-synthesis-without-dna-blueprint/ (accessed October 30, 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

2006

Telecommunications: States’ Collection and Use of Funds for Wireless Enhanced 911 Services. 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

Mycroft, D.

2012

Minorities in leadership and financial performance of their Fortune 500 companies. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine 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

St. John Kelly, E.

1999

F.Y.I. New York Times 142.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Angell 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Angell 2008; Cloetingh and Haq 2015).

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

Two authors: (Cloetingh and Haq 2015)
Three authors: (Yin, Yang, and Zheng 2014)
4 or more authors: (Leroy et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research
ISSN (print)	0003-097X
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