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

Bentley CR (2000) Antarctica. Stirring the icy waters. Nature 403:610–611

A journal article with 2 authors

Kress TL, Guthrie C (2006) Molecular biology. Accurate RNA siting and splicing gets help from a DEK-hand. Science 312:1886–1887

A journal article with 3 authors

Lai Y-T, Cascio D, Yeates TO (2012) Structure of a 16-nm cage designed by using protein oligomers. Science 336:1129

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sun Y, Li P, Qiao Y, Li Y (2014) Time-dependent gas-liquid interaction in molecular-sized nanopores. Sci Rep 4:6547

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Loveland WD, Morrissey DJ, Seaborg GT (2005) Modern Nuclear Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Hermans H (ed) (2016) Assessing and Stimulating a Dialogical Self in Groups, Teams, Cultures, and Organizations. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Looi C-K, Sun D, Xie W (2016) Design for Linking Science Learning to the Informal Spaces. In: Huang R, Kinshuk, Price JK (eds) ICT in Education in Global Context: Comparative Reports of Innovations in K-12 Education. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 75–94

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

Luntz S (2014) Fireball Meteor Filmed Over Tennessee. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/fireball-meteor-filmed-over-tennessee/. 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 (2009) Federal Student Aid: Recent Changes to Eligibility Requirements and Additional Efforts to Promote Awarness Could Increase Academic Competitiveness and SMART Grant Participation. 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

Reig MA (2008) Cross-Dialectal Variability in Propositional Anaphora: A Quantitative and Pragmatic Study of Null Objects in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

Crow K (2002) Gently, Neighbors Want Statue to Find a Home. New York Times 144

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bentley 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Bentley 2000; Kress and Guthrie 2006).

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

Two authors: (Kress and Guthrie 2006)
Three or more authors: (Sun 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