American Anthropological Association (AAA) Style Citation Guide

This guide is based on the AAA Style Guide 2009 available on line at
http://www.aaanet.org/publications/style_guide.pdf . The Chicago Manual of Style 15th and 16th editions
(available online through the library http://albert.stmarys-ca.edu/record=b487323~S1) were also consulted.

In Text Citations
All references must be cited in authordate form.
(Brown 2003)
If citing a specific page use a colon, no space, between year and page
number:
(Brown 2003:4-7)
Use et al. in text citations of three or more authors, but use all names in references
cited.
(Brown et al. 2003)
Place text citations as near the authors name as possible, except place quotation citations after the quote.
When using the authors name in the sentence, put the year of publication in parentheses.
According to Brown (2003) the kinship traditions of the group are complex.
If you dont specifically name the author in your text, cite it in parentheses:
The kinship traditions of the group are complex (Brown 2003).

References
Organize the Reference list in alphabetical order. Two works by the same author with different publication
dates are listed under the authors name in order of publication date.
Knorr-Cetina, Karin
1981 The Manufacture of Knowledge: An Essay on the Constructivist
and Contextual Nature of Science. Oxford: Pergamon.
1999 Epistemic Cultures: How the Sciences Make Knowledge. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
References with the same author and date should be placed in alphabetical order, by title, and designated a,
b, etc.
Gallimore, Ronald
1983a A Christmas Feast. New York: Oxford University Press.
1983b Holiday Gatherings in the Pacific Northwest. Berkeley: University of California Press.
SPACING: Reference should be single-spaced within entries and double-spaced between entries.
NOTE: In general, cite electronic versions of print sources as you would the print but add an access date and
URL. (See examples below).

Books
Single Author Book:
Godelier, Maurice
2011 The Metamorphoses of Kinship. London: Verso.
Two Authors:
Barnard, Alan, and Anthony Good
1984 Research Practices in the Study of Kinship. London: Academic Press.
Multiple authors:
Bonacich, Edna, with Mark Smith and Kathy Hunt
1999 The Economic Basis of Ethnic Solidarity: Small Business in the Japanese American
Berkeley: University of California Press.
NOTE: In the text citation include the first author only followed by et al.
Editor as Author
Lewin, Ellen, ed.
2006 Feminist Anthropology: A Reader. Malden: Blackwell.

Community.

Chapter in a Book
Rohlen, Thomas P.
1993 Education: Policies and Prospects. In Koreans in Japan: Ethnic Conflicts and Accommodation.
Cameron Lee and George De Vos, eds. Pp. 182222. Berkeley: University of California Press.
Subsequent or Revised Edition:
Bernard, H. Russell
2011 Research Methods in Anthropology: Qualitative and Quantitative Approaches. 5th edition. Lanham:
AltaMira.
Electronic Book
From a library database:
MacClancy, Jeremy.
2013 Anthropology in The Public Arena: Historical and Contemporary Contexts. Hoboken: John Wiley and
Sons. Ebrary e-book collection. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/stmarysca/docDetail.action?docID=10650992
accessed October 11, 2013.
From the Web:
Keane, A.H.
1920 Man: Past and Present. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Project Gutenberg.
http://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/35685 accessed October 11, 2013.

Articles
Journal Article:
Houseman, Michael.
1988 Toward a Complex Model of Parenthood: Two African Tales. American Ethnologist 15(4):658-677.
Journal Article Retrieved from an Electronic Database:
Include a DOI (Digital Object Identifier) if the journal lists one. If no DOI is listed, use the URL.
With DOI:
ONeill, Kevin Lewis
2013 Left Behind: Security, Salvation, and the Subject of Prevention. Cultural Anthropology 28(2):204-22.
DOI: 10.1111/cuan.12001 accessed October 11, 2013

No DOI:
Hakansson, N. Thomas
1994 The Detachability of Women: Gender and Kinship in Processes of Socioeconomic Change among the
Gussii of Kenya. American Ethnologist 21(3):516-38. http://www.jstor.org/stable/645919 acccessed
October 11, 2013
Magazine or Newspaper Article:
Hunt, Will
2012 Secrets of the White Shaman. Discover May:50-56.
Online
Hunt, Will
2012 Secrets of the White Shaman. Discover May:50-56. http://ehis.ebscohost.com accessed August 2, 2013.
Roberts, Sam
2012 Using Modern Tools to Reconstruct Ancient Life. New York Times. January 10:D2L
http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA276685697&v=2.1&u=mora54187&it=r&p=AONE&s
w=w accessed August 2, 2013.
No author:
New York Times
2011 Japan: Dig Begins at Wartime Army Site Suspected in Prisoner Experiments. February
22:A6.http://go.galegroup.com/ps/i.do?id=GALE%7CA249650007&v=2.1&u=mora54187&it=r&p=A
ONE&sw=w accessed August 2, 2013.
Ph.D. Dissertation or M.A. Thesis (online):
Couture, Nicole Claire
2002 The Construction of Power: Monumental Space and Elite Residence at Tiwanaku. Ph.D. Dissertation,
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. accessed August 2, 2013.
http://search.proquest.com/pqdtft/docview/305518242/fulltextPDF/13FA6873D2C6533157E/4?accounti
d=25334. accessed October 11, 2013.
Conference Paper
Shimahara, Nobuo K.
1998 Mobility and Education of Buraku: The Case of a Japanese Minority. Paper presented at the Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, November 18.
Personal Communications
Personal Communications are cited in the text of the paper and are omitted from the reference list.
George Green claims (letter to author, January 22, 2013)
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George Green claims (email to the author, January 22, 2013)

Films
Banda, Dan, prod.
2005 After the immigrant: A Documentary Series about Ethnicity and its Many Meanings. Bandana
Productions. DVD.
Online streaming:
Falling Walls Foundation
2011 Breaking the Wall of Gambling: How Multisited Anthropology Can Transform Gambling Regulation.
Falling Walls Foundation/Films Media Group. Films on Demand
http://digital.films.com/PortalViewVideo.aspx?xtid=49386 accessed October 11, 2013
Other Electronic Sources:
Web Documents and sites:
Society for Historical Archaeology
2011 What is Historical Archaeology? http://www.sha.org/ accessed October 11, 2013.
Blog Entry or Comment:
Blog entries are commonly cited in text, for example, In a post to the Dienekes Anthropology Blog on January
17, 2010 and omitted from the reference list.