How to format your references using the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI). 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

Stebbins, J. F. 2002. Materials science. Dynamics in ceramics. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297, 1285–1287.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mannhart, J. & D. G. Schlom 2010. Oxide interfaces--an opportunity for electronics. Science (New York, N.Y.) 327, 1607–1611.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackerman, L. K. G., M. M. Lovell & D. J. Weix 2015. Multimetallic catalysed cross-coupling of aryl bromides with aryl triflates. Nature 524, 454–457.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Hu, J., M. Aguirre, C. Peto, et al. 2002. A role for peroxisomes in photomorphogenesis and development of Arabidopsis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297, 405–409.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klugman, S. A., H. H. Panjer & G. E. Willmot 2013. Loss Models: Further Topics. . (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics). Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Loménie, N., D. Racoceanu & A. Gouaillard (eds) 2012. Advances in Bio-Imaging: From Physics to Signal Understanding Issues: State-of-the-Art and Challenges, vol. 120. . (Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Adl-Tabatabai, A.-R., C. Kozyrakis & B. Saha 2009. Optimizing Memory Transactions for Multicore Systems. In Multicore Processors and Systems (eds) S. W. Keckler, K. Olukotun & H. P. Hofstee, 145–172. . (Integrated Circuits and Systems). Boston, MA: Springer US.

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 Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. Small Galaxies Contributed More To The Early Universe Than Once Thought. IFLScience. (available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/small-galaxies-contributed-more-early-universe-once-thought/, accessed 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 2011. Department of Energy: Advanced Technology Vehicle Loan Program Implementation Is Under Way, but Enhanced Technical Oversight and Performance Measures Are Needed. 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

Kaardal, J. T. 2017. Decoding the Computations of Sensory Neurons. . Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA.

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

Barron, J. 2017. Juliana Koo, 111; Wrote Life Story at 104. . New York Times, 8 June, B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stebbins 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Mannhart & Schlom 2010; Stebbins 2002).

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

Two authors: (Mannhart & Schlom 2010)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
Abbreviation	J. R. Anthropol. Inst.
ISSN (print)	1359-0987
ISSN (online)	1467-9655
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Anthropology