How to format your references using the Bioarchaeology International citation style

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

Jayaraman, K. S.

2002. Cutbacks cost jobs at agricultural institute. Nature 415(6875): 949.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knox, Andrea L., and Nicholas H. Brown.

2002. Rap1 GTPase regulation of adherens junction positioning and cell adhesion. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295(5558): 1285–1288.

A journal article with 3 authors

Biswas, Ayan K., Jayasimha Atulasimha, and Supriyo Bandyopadhyay.

2014. An error-resilient non-volatile magneto-elastic universal logic gate with ultralow energy-delay product. Scientific reports 4: 7553.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Manzke, Till, Ulf Guenther, Evgeni G. Ponimaskin, Miriam Haller, Mathias Dutschmann, Stephan Schwarzacher, and Diethelm W. Richter.

2003. 5-HT4(a) receptors avert opioid-induced breathing depression without loss of analgesia. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301(5630): 226–229.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fraser, John, and Betty J. Simkins.

2009. Enterprise Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, December 21.

An edited book

Schein, Moshe, and Paul N. Rogers, eds.

2007. Chirurgia addominale d’urgenza: il buon senso di Schein: Guida pratica per sopravvivere nella trincea delle urgenze chirurgiche. Springer, Milano.

A chapter in an edited book

Williams, John.

2013. Engineering Studies. In Digital Representations of Student Performance for Assessment, edited by P. John Williams and C. Paul Newhouse. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, pp. 99–124.

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 Bioarchaeology International.

Blog post

Davis, Josh.

2016. Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Discovered In Rio de Janeiro Waterways Ahead Of Olymics. IFLScience. IFLScience, June 13. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/antibioticresistant-bacteria-discovered-in-rio-de-janeiro-waterways-ahead-of-olymics/. Accessed October 30, 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.

1988. Air Traffic Control: Efforts to Expand the New York Terminal Area Automation System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, July 29.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jo, Son Mi.

2009. A study of Korean students’ creativity in science using structural equation modeling. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Walsh, Mary Williams.

2011. Robert A. Pritzker, 85; Led Family Business. New York Times, October 31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jayaraman 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Jayaraman 2002; Knox and Brown 2002).

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

Two authors: (Knox and Brown 2002)
Three or more authors: (Manzke et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bioarchaeology International
ISSN (print)	2472-8349
ISSN (online)	2472-8357
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