How to format your references using the Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
Wadman, M., 2006. The quiet rise of the clinical contractor. Nature 441, 22–23.
A journal article with 2 authors
Weis, S.M., Cheresh, D.A., 2005. Pathophysiological consequences of VEGF-induced vascular permeability. Nature 437, 497–504.
A journal article with 3 authors
Jiang, G., Kennedy, M.J., Christie-Blick, N., 2003. Stable isotopic evidence for methane seeps in Neoproterozoic postglacial cap carbonates. Nature 426, 822–826.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
Dougherty, M.K., Cao, H., Khurana, K.K., Hunt, G.J., Provan, G., Kellock, S., Burton, M.E., Burk, T.A., Bunce, E.J., Cowley, S.W.H., Kivelson, M.G., Russell, C.T., Southwood, D.J., 2018. Saturn’s magnetic field revealed by the Cassini Grand Finale. Science 362.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Tsujimura, T., 2017. OLED Display Fundamentals and Applications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, New Jersey.
An edited book
Kutyłowski, M., Vaidya, J. (Eds.), 2014. Computer Security - ESORICS 2014: 19th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Wroclaw, Poland, September 7-11, 2014. Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.
A chapter in an edited book
Teng, T.T., Low, L.W., 2012. Removal of Dyes and Pigments from Industrial Effluents, in: Sharma, S.K., Sanghi, R. (Eds.), Advances in Water Treatment and Pollution Prevention. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 65–93.

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 Digital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage.

Blog post
Andrew, D., 2015. One Of The Rarest Animals In The World Makes A Surprise Appearance [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/rare-sighting-albino-humpback-whale/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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. Civil Space: NASA’s Strategic Planning Process (No. NSIAD-89-30BR). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
Baker, B.R., 2012. Schizophrenia-spectrum behavior and peer responses to individuals with social anhedonia (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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. 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 (Wadman, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Wadman, 2006; Weis and Cheresh, 2005).

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

  • Two authors: (Weis and Cheresh, 2005)
  • Three or more authors: (Dougherty et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal titleDigital Applications in Archaeology and Cultural Heritage
ISSN (print)2212-0548
Scope

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