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

Kapan DD (2001) Three-butterfly system provides a field test of müllerian mimicry. Nature 409:338–340

A journal article with 2 authors

Lo JA, Fisher DE (2014) The melanoma revolution: from UV carcinogenesis to a new era in therapeutics. Science 346:945–949

A journal article with 3 authors

Wigginton N, Yeston J, Malakoff D (2012) Working with waste. More treasure than trash. Introduction. Science 337:662–663

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chan JR, Jolicoeur C, Yamauchi J, et al (2006) The polarity protein Par-3 directly interacts with p75NTR to regulate myelination. Science 314:832–836

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fink JK (2016) Metallized and Magnetic Polymers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Cockett NE, Kole C (eds) (2009) Genome Mapping and Genomics in Domestic Animals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Krishans Z, Mutule A, Merkuryev Y, Oleinikova I (2011) LTS D-Process Dynamic Optimization on all D-States. In: Mutule A, Merkuryev Y, Oleinikova I (eds) Dynamic Management of Sustainable Development: Methods for Large Technical Systems. Springer, London, pp 35–44

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

Andrew E (2016) Vanadium: The “Beautiful Metal’ That Stores Energy. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/vanadium-beautiful-metal-stores-energy/. 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 (2013) FAA Oversight of Procedures and Technologies to Prevent and Mitigate the Effects of Dense, Continuous Smoke in the Cockpit. 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

Klimek DL (2008) Antigone’s reach: A feminine model for today’s businesswoman. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Shpigel B (2017) Finalists Take Similar Routs. New York Times D1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kapan 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Kapan 2001; Lo and Fisher 2014).

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

Two authors: (Lo and Fisher 2014)
Three or more authors: (Chan et al. 2006)

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