How to format your references using the Geoarchaeology citation style

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

Offerman, S. E. (2004). Materials science. Microstructures in 4D. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305, 190–191.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eberl, G., & Littman, D. R. (2004). Thymic origin of intestinal alphabeta T cells revealed by fate mapping of RORgammat+ cells. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305, 248–251.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yanagisawa, S., Yoo, S.-D., & Sheen, J. (2003). Differential regulation of EIN3 stability by glucose and ethylene signalling in plants. Nature, 425, 521–525.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Wang, Z., Tao, P., Liu, Y., Xu, H., Ye, Q., Hu, H., Song, C., Chen, Z., Shang, W., & Deng, T. (2014). Rapid charging of thermal energy storage materials through plasmonic heating. Scientific reports, 4, 6246.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lamperti, J. W. (1996). Probability: A Survey of the Mathematical Theory. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Di Martino, B. (2015). Cloud Portability and Interoperability: Issues and Current Trends. (G. Cretella & A. Esposito, Eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Moisan, M., & Pelletier, J. (2012). Introduction to the Physics of HF Discharges. In J. Pelletier (Ed.), Physics of Collisional Plasmas: Introduction to High-Frequency Discharges (pp. 337–385). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Geoarchaeology.

Blog post

Andrews, R. (2015, October 13). NASA To Investigate Microgravity Effect On Astronauts’ Balance. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. (1991). FAA Information Technology: Complete Cost Data Not Provided to OMB (No. IMTEC-91-22). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

ELBoushi, T. C. (2010). Evaluating ethics training and the outcome on leadership decision making: A phenomenological study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, 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

Shpigel, B. (2017, June 1). Three Goals Early in Third Period Help Penguins Tighten Their Grip. New York Times, p. B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Offerman, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Eberl & Littman, 2004; Offerman, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Eberl & Littman, 2004)
Three authors: (Yanagisawa, Yoo, & Sheen, 2003)
4 or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Geoarchaeology
Abbreviation	Geoarchaeology
ISSN (print)	0883-6353
ISSN (online)	1520-6548
Scope	Archaeology Earth and Planetary Sciences (miscellaneous)