Quick Anthropological Style Guide Comparison

The charts and examples below provide a quick comparison of major differences between four major styles relevant to anthropological writing, focusing on those that might be used in historical archaeology or ethnohistory.  These are as follows (including links for more complete information, which open in a separate window):

AAA (Anthropological Association of America)

SAA (Society for American Archaeology)

SHA (Society for Historical Archaeology)

Turabian (a variant of the Chicago Manual of Style commonly used by historians).

The chart below is a quick reference for some of the most notable points of difference between the various styles.

Quick Comparison Chart for Bibliography Entries

Guide	Indentation	Titles	Publisher	Book Date	Journal Date	In-Text Citations
AAA	stepped	normal	[city]: [press]	below author	below author	author-date
SAA	stepped	italics	[press], [city]	below author	below author	author-date
SHA	none	italics	[press], [city]	below author	below author	author-date
Turabian	one indent	italics	[city]: [press]	after publisher	after volume and number	footnotes or endnotes

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Comparative Examples

The examples provided below compare different citation and bibliography formats for the same three sources: a chapter in an edited volume, the edited volume itself, and a journal article .  As a general rule, details of the formats shown in these examples can be extrapolated to other types of sources with appropriate adjustments.

The color-coded templates are designed to highlight visually the relative positions of comparable elements of each citation.  All colored text within the brackets should be replaced with the stated information (italicized when indicated); all black text and punctuation, as well as spaces, outside the brackets, should be reproduced exactly as shown (except when editors of volume numbers are plural).  Please note that the "stepped" indentation of AAA and SHA bibliographic styles (with the third line indented below the date) could not be reproduced in the templates below (but does appear in the example citations).

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Chapter in Edited Volume

Style Guide	Bibliography Template
AAA	[author name] [date]  [chapter title]. In [book title]. [editor name], ed. Pp. [pages]. [city]:[publisher].
SAA	[author name] [date]  [chapter title]. In [book title], edited by [editor name], pp. [pages]. [publisher], [city].
SHA	[author name] [date]     [chapter title]. In [book title], [editor name], editor, pp. [pages]. [publisher], [city].
Turabian	[author name]. "[chapter title]." In [book title], edited by [editor name], [pages]. [city]:[publisher], [date].

Chapter in Edited Volume - AAA

bibliographic entry:

Worth, John E.

2009  Razing Florida: The Indian Slave Trade and the Devastation of Spanish Florida, 1659-1715. In Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South. Robbie Ethridge and Sheri Shuck-Hall, eds. Pp. 295-311. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

in-text citation: (Worth 2009)

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Chapter in Edited Volume - SAA

bibliographic entry:

Worth, John E.

2009  Razing Florida: The Indian Slave Trade and the Devastation of Spanish Florida, 1659-1715. In Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South. edited by Robbie Ethridge and Sheri Shuck-Hall, pp. 295-311. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.

in-text citation: (Worth 2009)

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Chapter in Edited Volume - SHA

bibliographic entry:

Worth, John E.

2009    Razing Florida: The Indian Slave Trade and the Devastation of Spanish Florida, 1659-1715. In Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South, Robbie Ethridge and Sheri Shuck-Hall, editors, pp. 295-311. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.

in-text citation: (Worth 2009)

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Chapter in Edited Volume - Turabian

bibliographic entry:

Worth, John E.  “Razing Florida: The Indian Slave Trade and the Devastation of Spanish Florida, 1659-1715.” In Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South, edited by Robbie Ethridge and Sheri Shuck-Hall, 295-311. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

in-text citation (first note):

1. John E. Worth, “Razing Florida: The Indian Slave Trade and the Devastation of Spanish Florida, 1659-1715,” in Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South, ed. Robbie Ethridge and Sheri Shuck-Hall, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009), 295-311.

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Edited Volume*

Style Guide	Bibliography Template
AAA	[editor name], ed. [date]  [book title]. [city]:[publisher].
SAA	[editor name] (editor) [date] [book title]. [publisher], [city].
SHA	[editor name] (editor) [date]    [book title]. [publisher], [city].
Turabian	[editor name], ed. [book title]. [city]:[publisher], [date].

*Note: the template above is suitable for single-author books, if the editor name is replaced with the book author name, and the "editor" references are simply removed.

Edited Volume - AAA

bibliographic entry:

Ethridge, Robbie, and Sheri Shuck-Hall, eds.

2009  Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press.

in-text citation: (Ethridge and Shuck-Hall 2009)

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Edited Volume - SAA

bibliographic entry:

Ethridge, Robbie, and Sheri Shuck-Hall (editors)

2009  Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South.  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.

in-text citation: (Ethridge and Shuck-Hall 2009)

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Edited Volume - SHA

bibliographic entry:

Ethridge, Robbie, and Sheri Shuck-Hall (editors)

2009    Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South.  University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.

in-text citation: (Ethridge and Shuck-Hall 2009)

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Edited Volume - Turabian

bibliographic entry:

Ethridge, Robbie, and Sheri Shuck-Hall, eds. Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009.

in-text citation (first note):

1. Robbie Ethridge and Sheri Shuck-Hall, eds., Mapping the Mississippian Shatter Zone: The Colonial Indian Slave Trade and Regional Instability in the American South (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009).

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Journal Article

Style Guide	Bibliography Template
AAA	[author name] [date]  [article title]. [journal title] [volume]([number]):[pages].
SAA	[author name] [date]  [article title]. [journal title] [volume]([number]):[pages].
SHA	[author name] [date]     [article title]. [journal title] [volume]([number]):[pages].
Turabian	[author name]. "[article title]." [journal title] [volume], no. [number] ([date]):[pages].

Journal Article - AAA

bibliographic entry:

Worth, John E.

2009  Documenting Tristán de Luna’s Fleet, and the Storm that Destroyed It. The Florida Anthropologist 62(3-4): 83-92.

in-text citation: (Worth 2009)

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Journal Article - SAA

bibliographic entry:

Worth, John E.

2009  Documenting Tristán de Luna’s Fleet, and the Storm that Destroyed It. The Florida Anthropologist 62(3-4): 83-92.

in-text citation: (Worth 2009)

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Journal Article - SHA

bibliographic entry:

Worth, John E.

2009    Documenting Tristán de Luna’s Fleet, and the Storm that Destroyed It. The Florida Anthropologist 62(3-4): 83-92.

in-text citation: (Worth 2009)

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Journal Article - Turabian

bibliographic entry:

Worth, John E. “Documenting Tristán de Luna’s Fleet, and the Storm that Destroyed It.” The Florida Anthropologist 62, nos. 3-4 (2009): 83-92.

in-text citation (first note):

1. John E. Worth, “Documenting Tristán de Luna’s Fleet, and the Storm that Destroyed It,” The Florida Anthropologist 62, nos. 3-4 (2009): 83-92.

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