How to format your references using the Cambridge Archaeological Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 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

Lisse, C.M., 2012. Astronomy. The final flight of a Sun-diving comet, Science (New York, N.Y.) 335(6066), 296–97.

A journal article with 2 authors

Moscou, M.J. & A.J. Bogdanove, 2009. A simple cipher governs DNA recognition by TAL effectors, Science (New York, N.Y.) 326(5959), 1501.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chang, H.C., J. Paek & D.H. Kim, 2011. Natural polymorphisms in C. elegans HECW-1 E3 ligase affect pathogen avoidance behaviour, Nature 480(7378), 525–29.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tobias, J.A., J.M. Bates, S.J. Hackett & N. Seddon, 2008. Comment on ‘The latitudinal gradient in recent speciation and extinction rates of birds and mammals’, Science (New York, N.Y.) 319(5865), 901; author reply 901.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fisher, H.G., H.S. Forrest, S.S. Grossel, J.E. Huff, A.R. Muller, J.A. Noronha, D.A. Shaw & B.J. Tilley, 1993. Emergency Relief System Design Using DIERS Technology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Vissers, C.A., 2016. Architectural Design: Conception and Specification of Interactive Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bošnački, D., T.E. Pronk & E.P. de Vink, 2009. In Silico Modelling and Analysis of Ribosome Kinetics and aa-tRNA Competition, in Transactions on Computational Systems Biology XI, eds. C. Priami, R.-J. Back & I. Petre (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 69–89.

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 Cambridge Archaeological Journal.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. France Leads The Way With World’s First Solar Panel Road. IFLScience 23 December 2016 . https://www.iflscience.com/environment/france-leads-the-way-with-worlds-first-solar-panel-road/ [Accessed 30 Oct 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, 1982.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Moore, A.M., 2010. Assessing the Demand for Simplified Stormwater Modeling Tools within the Design Profession to Facilitate the Adoption of Sustainable Stormwater Practices, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2006. Justices Ponder Conditions For Automatic Deportation, New York Times A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lisse 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Lisse 2012; Moscou & Bogdanove 2009).

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

Two authors: (Moscou & Bogdanove 2009)
Three or more authors: (Tobias et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cambridge Archaeological Journal
Abbreviation	Camb. Archaeol. J.
ISSN (print)	0959-7743
ISSN (online)	1474-0540
Scope	Archaeology Cultural Studies