How to format your references using the Museum Management and Curatorship citation style

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

McGill, Brian J. 2003. “A Test of the Unified Neutral Theory of Biodiversity.” Nature 422 (6934): 881–885.

A journal article with 2 authors

Legler, B., and G. Moore. 2000. “East German Academics Faced Unfair Hurdles.” Nature 403 (6766): 130.

A journal article with 3 authors

Harper, Shannon M., Lori C. Neil, and Kevin H. Gardner. 2003. “Structural Basis of a Phototropin Light Switch.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 301 (5639): 1541–1544.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Shorey, L., S. Piertney, J. Stone, and J. Höglund. 2000. “Fine-Scale Genetic Structuring on Manacus Manacus Leks.” Nature 408 (6810): 352–353.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bachmann, Hubert, Alfred Steinle, and Volker Hahn. 2010. Bauen Mit Betonfertigteilen Im Hochbau. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Andreon, Stefano. 2015. Bayesian Methods for the Physical Sciences: Learning from Examples in Astronomy and Physics. Edited by Brian Weaver. Vol. 4. Springer Series in Astrostatistics. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Prudente, Frederico V., and Marcilio N. Guimarães. 2014. “Confined Quantum Systems Using the Finite Element and Discrete Variable Representation Methods.” In Electronic Structure of Quantum Confined Atoms and Molecules, edited by K. D. Sen, 101–143. 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 Museum Management and Curatorship.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2015. “80-Million-Year-Old Lizard Links The Old World With The New.” IFLScience, IFLScience, August 26. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/80-million-year-old-lizard-links-old-world-new/.

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. 1976. Evaluation of the Department of the Army’s Personnel and Cost Estimates for an Electronics Research and Development Command. LCD-76-465. 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

Gonzalez, Raul. 2010. “A Mentoring Program for Latino Foster Youth: A Grant Proposal.” Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wagner, James. 2017. “Returning for Friendship, and Drums.” New York Times, March 11, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGill 2003).
This sentence cites two references (McGill 2003; Legler and Moore 2000).

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

Two authors: (Legler and Moore 2000)
Three authors: (Harper, Neil, and Gardner 2003)
4 or more authors: (Shorey et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Museum Management and Curatorship
ISSN (print)	0964-7775
ISSN (online)	1872-9185
Scope	Visual Arts and Performing Arts Business and International Management Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management