How to format your references using the Archaeological Research in Asia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archaeological Research in Asia. 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

Vihinen, M., 2015. No more hidden solutions in bioinformatics. Nature 521, 261.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ellis, B.E., Miles, G.P., 2001. Plant biology. One for all? Science 292, 2022–2023.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yohe, G., Andronova, N., Schlesinger, M., 2004. Climate. To hedge or not against an uncertain climate future? Science 306, 416–417.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wollert, T., Wunder, C., Lippincott-Schwartz, J., Hurley, J.H., 2009. Membrane scission by the ESCRT-III complex. Nature 458, 172–177.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, D.M., 2009. World Wide Rave. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Cao, J., Mao, K., Cambria, E., Man, Z., Toh, K.-A. (Eds.), 2015. Proceedings of ELM-2014 Volume 1: Algorithms and Theories, Proceedings in Adaptation, Learning and Optimization. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Clark, P.E., Rilee, M.L., 2010. Longwave Region: Mid to Thermal Infrared, Microwave, and Radio, in: Rilee, M.L. (Ed.), Remote Sensing Tools for Exploration: Observing and Interpreting the Electromagnetic Spectrum. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 178–252.

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 Research in Asia.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. Scientists Make World’s First White Laser [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-show-worlds-first-white-laser/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1975. Comments on Energy Research and Development Administration’s Proposed Arrangement for the Clinch River Breeder Reactor Demonstration Plant Project (No. RED-75-361). 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

Ellerbrook, S.L., 2009. Exploring the efficiency and effectiveness of teacher selection tools: The effects on the total group with a focus on the gender sub-groups (Doctoral dissertation). Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Sisario, B., 2017. Keeping the Dream Kickin’. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vihinen, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ellis and Miles, 2001; Vihinen, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ellis and Miles, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Wollert et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archaeological Research in Asia
Abbreviation	Archaeol. Res. Asia
ISSN (print)	2352-2267
Scope