How to format your references using the Journal of the Society of Archivists citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the Society of Archivists. 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

Freeman, Benny. “Not All Membrane Pores Are Made Equal; Some Are More Equal than Others.” Nature 454, no. 7205 (August 7, 2008): 671.

A journal article with 2 authors

Artursson, Per, and Stefan D. Knight. “Structural Biology. Breaking the Intestinal Barrier to Deliver Drugs.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 347, no. 6223 (February 13, 2015): 716–17.

A journal article with 3 authors

Haynes, John-Dylan, Ralf Deichmann, and Geraint Rees. “Eye-Specific Effects of Binocular Rivalry in the Human Lateral Geniculate Nucleus.” Nature 438, no. 7067 (November 24, 2005): 496–99.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Maeda, K., S. Benetti, M. Stritzinger, F. K. Röpke, G. Folatelli, J. Sollerman, S. Taubenberger, et al. “An Asymmetric Explosion as the Origin of Spectral Evolution Diversity in Type Ia Supernovae.” Nature 466, no. 7302 (July 1, 2010): 82–85.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinlan, Joseph, and Jackie VanderBrug. Gender Lens Investing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016.

An edited book

Mak, Pui-In. Analog-Baseband Architectures And Circuits For Multistandard And Lowvoltage Wireless Transceivers. Edited by Seng-Pan U and Rui Paulo Martins. Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Anthony, Stein And, and Forman J. Stephen. “Allogeneic and Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation for Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia and Acute Myelogenous Leukemia in the Adult.” In Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation, edited by Robert J. Soiffer, 57–82. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press, 2008.

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 Society of Archivists.

Blog post

Carpineti, Alfredo. “Why Do Galaxies Stop Forming Stars?” IFLScience. IFLScience, July 15, 2016.

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 Safety: FAA Needs to Update Curriculum and Certification Requirements for Aviation Mechanics.” Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, March 6, 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Renteria, Yadira. “Respite Services for Post-Adoption Families Transitioning from the Child Welfare System: A Grant Proposal.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

Protess, Ben, and Matt Apuzzo. “Tougher on Corporate Crime. For Now.” New York Times, January 12, 2017.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Society of Archivists
Abbreviation	J. Soc. Arch.
ISSN (print)	0037-9816
ISSN (online)	1465-3907
Scope	History Library and Information Sciences