Bibliographic conventions from the Journal of the Royal Anthropological

Institute

Taken from ‘Notes for Contributors’

The following conventions must be observed:

• Bibliographical references should be cited in the text by the author's last name,
date of publication, and page, e.g. (Firth 1954: 285) or, if the author's name is
mentioned in the text, by the date and page reference only, e.g. (1954: 285).
Every quotation must be page referenced as must be references to sections of
texts in which specific concepts, debates, or ethnographic examples are
discussed. Entries in the references should be in alphabetical order of authors
and should include the following: name and initials (not full given names) of
author(s), date, title, and (for books) place of publication as well as, if
published in 1901 or after, name of publisher. For articles the name of journal
should be provided in full with the volume number (arabic numbers to be
used throughout) and pagination. Include both volume and issue number only
where a journal is paginated by issue rather than in one sequence across the
volume. Always include pagination for chapters within books. Translators
should be credited for translated works. Where the original date of
publication differs significantly from the date of the edition being cited, the
date of original publication should also be included in square brackets.

Examples are:

Levin, M. (ed.) 1993. Ethnicity and aboriginality: case studies in ethnonationalism.

Toronto: University Press.

Mauss, M. 1979 [1935]. Body Techniques. In Sociology and psychology: essays by

Marcel Mauss (trans. B. Brewster), 95-123. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

Mills, M.A. 1997. Religious authority and pastoral care in Tibetan Buddhism: the
ritual hierarchies of Lingshed monastery, Ladakh. Ph.D. thesis, University of
Edinburgh.
Sanz, C., D. Morgan & S. Gulick 2004. New insights into chimpanzees, tools and
termites from the Congo Basin. American Naturalist 164, 567-81.

Strathern, M. 1990. Negative strategies in Melanesia. In Localizing strategies:

regional traditions in ethnographic writing (ed.) R. Fardon, 204-16. Edinburgh:
Scottish Academic Press.

- - - 1996. Cutting the network. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.)
2, 517-35.
Sutton, G.M. 1932. The exploration of Southampton Island, Hudson Bay. (Memoirs
of the Carnegie Museum 12: 1). Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum.

Tsur, R. 2001. Onomatopoeia: cuckoo-language and tick-tocking: the constraints of

semiotic systems (available on-line:
http://www.trismegistos.com/IconicityInLanguage/ Articles/Tsur/default.html).

• Paragraphs must be separated by a double hard return. Single quotation marks

should be used for quotations in the text, double marks for quotations within
quotations. The journal follows UK punctuation conventions. Note also that
the journal uses serial commas (i.e. red, white, and blue, rather than red, white
and blue - references and quotations are excepted here).
• Quotations of more than fifty words should be set off with a double hard
return and indented. Foreign words (except proper names) should be italicized.