How to format your references using the Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Bonvillian WB (2013) Technology. Advanced manufacturing policies and paradigms for innovation. Science 342:1173–1175

A journal article with 2 authors

Lister AM, Sher AV (2001) The origin and evolution of the woolly mammoth. Science 294:1094–1097

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaminski JA, Sloutsky VM, Heckler AF (2008) Learning theory. The advantage of abstract examples in learning math. Science 320:454–455

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Onodera R, Motoyama K, Tanaka N, et al (2014) Involvement of autophagy in antitumor activity of folate-appended methyl-β-cyclodextrin. Sci Rep 4:4417

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

J.G. Upton G (2016) Categorical Data Analysis by Example. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Contopoulos I, Gabuzda D, Kylafis N (eds) (2015) The Formation and Disruption of Black Hole Jets. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Dilli E, Dodick DW (2012) Headache. In: Burneo JG, Demaerschalk BM, Jenkins ME (eds) Neurology: An Evidence-Based Approach. Springer, New York, NY, pp 75–86

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 Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences.

Blog post

Andrews R (2016) The Winners Of The Wildlife Photographer Of The Year Awards Are Absolutely Spectacular. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/winners-wildlife-photographer-year-awards-absolutely-spectacular/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1990) Airline Competition: Passenger Facility Charges Can Provide an Independent Source of Funding for Airport Expansion and Improvement Projects. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

France KA (2015) Triadic Supervision: An Exploration of Supervisors’ Perceptions, Experiences and Practices. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University

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

Victor D (2017) Dismissed Breitbart Editor Blames Anti-Muslim Tweets. New York Times B3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bonvillian 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Lister and Sher 2001; Bonvillian 2013).

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

Two authors: (Lister and Sher 2001)
Three or more authors: (Onodera et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences
Abbreviation	Archaeol. Anthropol. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1866-9557
ISSN (online)	1866-9565
Scope	Archaeology Anthropology