How to format your references using the Suomen antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Suomen antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Rochaix, Jean-David 2013. Plant Science. Fine-Tuning Photosynthesis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 342 (6154): 50–51.
A journal article with 2 authors
McSweeney, Sean and Petra Fromme 2014. Crystallography: Sources of Inspiration. Nature 505 (7485): 620–621.
A journal article with 3 authors
Rasmussen, L.E.L., H.S. Riddle and V. Krishnamurthy 2002. Mellifluous Matures to Malodorous in Musth. Nature 415 (6875): 975–976.
A journal article with 8 or more authors
Takano, Junpei, Kyotaro Noguchi, Miho Yasumori, Masaharu Kobayashi, Zofia Gajdos, Kyoko Miwa, … Toru Fujiwara 2002. Arabidopsis Boron Transporter for Xylem Loading. Nature 420 (6913): 337–340.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Roeder, Tres 2013. Managing Project Stakeholders. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
An edited book
Freitas, Vasco Peixoto de de and J.M.P.Q. Delgado (eds) 2013. Durability of Building Materials and Components. Vol. 3. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Hommes, Cars 2005. Heterogeneous Agent Models: Two Simple Examples. In Marji Lines (ed.). Nonlinear Dynamical Systems in Economics. Vienna: Springer.

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 Suomen antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society.

Blog post
Hale, Tom 2016. Cost Of Hurricane Damage In The US Could Triple By 2100 Due To Global Warming. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/cost-of-hurricane-damage-in-the-us-could-triple-by-2100-due-to-global-warming/. <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 1986. [Question Concerning Protest Under Army IFB for Dependent School Transportation]. (No. B-221710). 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
Kim, Christopher S. 2017. Electronic Transport of Thin Crystals in Ruthenium Chloride. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach dissertation.

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
Blecher, George 2014. In Pursuit of the Perfect Pie. New York Times 10 August, p. LI10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rochaix 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Rochaix 2013; McSweeney and Fromme 2014).

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

  • Two authors: (McSweeney and Fromme 2014)
  • Three authors: (Rasmussen, Riddle and Krishnamurthy 2002)
  • 4 or more authors: (Takano et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal titleSuomen antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society
ISSN (online)1799-8972
Scope

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