How to format your references using the Australian Archaeology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Archaeology. 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

Kidwell, S.M. 2005 Shell composition has no net impact on large-scale evolutionary patterns in mollusks. Science (New York, N.Y.) 307(5711):914–917.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wallenfang, M.R. and E. Matunis 2003 Developmental biology. Orienting stem cells. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301(5639):1490–1491.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wearn, O.R., D.C. Reuman, and R.M. Ewers 2012 Extinction debt and windows of conservation opportunity in the Brazilian Amazon. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337(6091):228–232.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gagnon, E., P. Ranitovic, X.-M. Tong, C.L. Cocke, M.M. Murnane, H.C. Kapteyn, and A.S. Sandhu 2007 Soft X-ray-driven femtosecond molecular dynamics. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317(5843):1374–1378.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Egan, W.F. 2011 Advanced Frequency Synthesis by Phase Lock. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Sacco, G.M. and Y. Tzitzikas, editors 2009 Dynamic Taxonomies and Faceted Search: Theory, Practice, and Experience. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Jones, C.W., D. Penzkover, R. Pollard, and R.S. Kuhlmann 2016 First-Trimester Embryology: An Overview. In J.S. Abramowicz (ed.), pp.59–76. First-Trimester Ultrasound: A Comprehensive Guide. Cham, Springer International Publishing.

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 Australian Archaeology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. 2015, October 10 This Math Question Baffled The Internet - Can You Solve It?IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved 30 October 2018 < https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/math-question-baffled-scottish-teens/ >.

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 2002 Technology Transfer: Several Factors Have Led to a Decline in Partnerships at DOE’s Laboratories. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Krishnan, R. 2014 Generalized Conditional Matching Algorithm for Ordered and Unordered Sets. Doctoral dissertation, Tampa, FL, University of South Florida.

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

Rothenberg, B. 2017, June 6 Roland Garros Is Assured of a First-Time Finalist. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kidwell 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Wallenfang and Matunis 2003, Kidwell 2005).

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

Two authors: (Wallenfang and Matunis 2003)
Three or more authors: (Gagnon et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Archaeology
ISSN (print)	0312-2417
ISSN (online)	2470-0363
Scope