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

Benjamin, S.

2000. QUANTUM CRYPTOGRAPHY: Single Photons. Science (New York, N.Y.) 290(5500): 2273–2274.

A journal article with 2 authors

Choi, Yong Jun, and Sang Yup Lee.

2013. Microbial production of short-chain alkanes. Nature 502(7472): 571–574.

A journal article with 3 authors

Garofalo, Sara, Martin E. Maier, and Giuseppe di Pellegrino.

2014. Mediofrontal negativity signals unexpected omission of aversive events. Scientific reports 4: 4816.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chi, Sung Wook, Julie B. Zang, Aldo Mele, and Robert B. Darnell.

2009. Argonaute HITS-CLIP decodes microRNA-mRNA interaction maps. Nature 460(7254): 479–486.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Girling, Philippa.

2013. Operational Risk Management. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, October 2.

An edited book

Kozai, Toyoki, Kazuhiro Fujiwara, and Erik S. Runkle, eds.

2016. LED Lighting for Urban Agriculture. Springer, Singapore.

A chapter in an edited book

Knox, Emily.

2014. Tomboys in the Work of Carson McCullers. In Illuminating How Identities, Stereotypes and Inequalities Matter through Gender Studies, edited by D. Nicole Farris, Mary Ann Davis, and D’lane R. Compton. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 43–52.

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. Sakurai’s Object Evolution Witnessed in Real Time. IFLScience. IFLScience, April 3. https://www.iflscience.com/space/sakurai’s-object-evolution-witnessed-real-time/. 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.

1998. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Updated Status of Department of Education’s Information Systems. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, October 8.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Owsiak, Nelda Kimrey.

2008. Teacher quality accountability measures: Perceptions of degree and direction of influence on university -based teacher education programs. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Wilson, Michael.

2017. Atmosphere Is Tempered At Puerto Rican Day Parade. New York Times, June 11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benjamin 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Benjamin 2000; Choi and Lee 2013).

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

Two authors: (Choi and Lee 2013)
Three or more authors: (Chi et al. 2009)

About the journal

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