How to format your references using the Archaeometry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archaeometry. 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	Download the output style file
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

Ledford, H., 2015, Epigenetics: The genome unwrapped, Nature, 528(7580), S12-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Caputo, J. M., and Collins, S. H., 2014, Prosthetic ankle push-off work reduces metabolic rate but not collision work in non-amputee walking, Scientific reports, 4, 7213.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chou, S. Y., Keimel, C., and Gu, J., 2002, Ultrafast and direct imprint of nanostructures in silicon, Nature, 417(6891), 835–7.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zaidi, M. R., Davis, S., Noonan, F. P., Graff-Cherry, C., Hawley, T. S., Walker, R. L., Feigenbaum, L., Fuchs, E., Lyakh, L., Young, H. A., Hornyak, T. J., Arnheiter, H., Trinchieri, G., Meltzer, P. S., De Fabo, E. C., and Merlino, G., 2011, Interferon-γ links ultraviolet radiation to melanomagenesis in mice, Nature, 469(7331), 548–53.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jones, P., and Burger, J., 2009, Configuring SAP® ERP Financials and Controlling, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

Glau, K., Grbac, Z., Scherer, M., and Zagst, R. (eds.), 2016, Innovations in Derivatives Markets: Fixed Income Modeling, Valuation Adjustments, Risk Management, and Regulation, Vol. 165, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Isobe, Y., Moller, F., Nguyen, H. N., and Roggenbach, M., 2012, Safety and Line Capacity in Railways – An Approach in Timed CSP, In Integrated Formal Methods: 9th International Conference, IFM 2012, Pisa, Italy, June 18-21, 2012. Proceedings (eds. J. Derrick, S. Gnesi, D. Latella, and H. Treharne), 54–68, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Archaeometry.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017, Reintroduced Beavers In England Help Protect Against Floods And Soil Erosion, IFLScience, IFLScience, URL: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/reintroduced-beavers-in-england-help-protect-against-floods-and-soil-erosion/.

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, 1997, Tax Systems Modernization: Imaging System’s Performance Improving but Still Falls Short of Expectations, 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

Murillo, K., 2010, An analysis of California community college budget policy key components in multicollege districts, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Pilon, M., and Mather, V., 2013, To Avoid I.O.C. Cut, a Sport Changed, New York Times, February 14, B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ledford 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Caputo and Collins 2014; Ledford 2015).

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

Two authors: (Caputo and Collins 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zaidi et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archaeometry
Abbreviation	Archaeometry
ISSN (online)	1475-4754
Scope	History Archaeology