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

Kasevich, Mark A.

2002. Coherence with atoms. Science (New York, N.Y.) 298(5597): 1363–1368.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hong, Sungchan, and Takeshi Asai.

2014. Effect of panel shape of soccer ball on its flight characteristics. Scientific reports 4: 5068.

A journal article with 3 authors

Reynolds, J. N., B. I. Hyland, and J. R. Wickens.

2001. A cellular mechanism of reward-related learning. Nature 413(6851): 67–70.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, Bo, Jianjun Wang, Zhiping Liu, and Xianren Zhang.

2014. Beyond Cassie equation: local structure of heterogeneous surfaces determines the contact angles of microdroplets. Scientific reports 4: 5822.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Young, Susan, and Jessica Bramham.

2012. Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for ADHD in Adolescents and Adults. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, April 13.

An edited book

Rabinovich, Daniel, ed.

2014. Molecular Design in Inorganic Biochemistry. Structure and Bonding. Vol. 160. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Derksen, Harm, and Gregor Kemper.

2015. Invariant Theory of Infinite Groups. In Computational Invariant Theory, edited by Gregor Kemper. Encyclopaedia of Mathematical Sciences. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 153–264.

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

Andrew, Elise.

2014. Has a Chupacabra Been Captured in Texas? IFLScience. IFLScience, April 4. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/has-chupacabra-been-captured-texas/. 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.

2015. Unmanned Aerial Systems: FAA Continues Progress toward Integration into the National Airspace. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, July 16.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gaete, Dariella Odette.

2009. Investigation of intuitive eating after intervention measured by the Intuitive Eating Scale. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Kenigsberg, Ben.

2017. School Life. New York Times, September 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kasevich 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Kasevich 2002; Hong and Asai 2014).

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

Two authors: (Hong and Asai 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

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