How to format your references using the International Journal of Osteoarchaeology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Osteoarchaeology. 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

Rausher MD. 2001. Co-evolution and plant resistance to natural enemies. Nature 411: 857–864.

A journal article with 2 authors

Petronczki M, Uhlmann F. 2012. Cell biology. ESCRTing DNA at the cleavage site during cytokinesis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 336: 166–167.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blaha G, Stanley RE, Steitz TA. 2009. Formation of the first peptide bond: the structure of EF-P bound to the 70S ribosome. Science (New York, N.Y.) 325: 966–970.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Wernsdorfer W, Aliaga-Alcalde N, Hendrickson DN, Christou G. 2002. Exchange-biased quantum tunnelling in a supramolecular dimer of single-molecule magnets. Nature 416: 406–409.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heitz E, Kreysa G. 2005. Grundlagen der Technischen Elektrochemie. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG.

An edited book

Poprawe R (ed). 2011. Tailored Light 2: Laser Application Technology. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hoa NT, Bui TD, Dang TK. 2013. Efficiency Improvements for Fuzzy Associative Memory. In Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2013: 10th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Dalian, China, July 4-6, 2013, Proceedings, Part I, Guo C, Hou Z-G, and Zeng Z (eds). Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 36–43.

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 International Journal of Osteoarchaeology.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. Newly-Discovered “Bat Frog” Named After Ozzy Osbourne. IFLScience [online] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/newly-discovered-bat-frog-named-after-ozzy-osbourne/ (Accessed 30 October 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. 1999. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Estimated Costs, Planned Uses of Emergency Funding, and Future Implications. 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

Bartaula B. 2017. Stand Level Growth and Survival Equations for Cutover Sites Loblolly Pine Plantations in the Mid-Gulf Region of Southern United States, Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University: Mississippi State, MS

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

Poniewozik J. 2017. Spokesman Spins for Audience of One. New York Times 10th March: A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rausher, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Petronczki & Uhlmann, 2012; Rausher, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Petronczki & Uhlmann, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Wernsdorfer et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	International Journal of Osteoarchaeology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Osteoarchaeol.
ISSN (print)	1047-482X
ISSN (online)	1099-1212
Scope	Archaeology Anthropology