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

Abbott A. 2007. How to make it in Moscow. Nature 448: 983.

A journal article with 2 authors

Makova KD, Li W-H. 2002. Strong male-driven evolution of DNA sequences in humans and apes. Nature 416: 624–626.

A journal article with 3 authors

Aida T, Meijer EW, Stupp SI. 2012. Functional supramolecular polymers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 335: 813–817.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Luminet J-P, Weeks JR, Riazuelo A, Lehoucq R, Uzan J-P. 2003. Dodecahedral space topology as an explanation for weak wide-angle temperature correlations in the cosmic microwave background. Nature 425: 593–595.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

American Institute of Timber Constr. 2012. Timber Construction Manual. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Albini A. 2016. Paradigms in Green Chemistry and Technology. Protti S (ed). Springer International Publishing: Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Kato T. 2011. Linear and Quasi-Linear Equations of Evolution of Hyperbolic Type. In Hyperbolicity: Lectures given at the Centro Internazionale Matematico Estivo (C.I.M.E.), held in Cortona (Arezzo), Italy, June 24 – July 2, 1976, Prato GD and Geymonat G (eds). Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 125–191.

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. 2015. Watch A Diamond Burn In Pure Oxygen. IFLScience [online] Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/watch-diamond-burn-pure-oxygen/ (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. 2009. Rail Transit: Observations on FTA’s State Safety Oversight Program and Potential Change in Oversight Role. 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

Lummus S. 2010. Perceptions of required leadership behaviors for nurse leaders as measured by the Leadership Practices Inventory, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University: Malibu, CA

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

Grynbaum MM, Steel E. 2017. Hannity Defends Fox News Leader. New York Times 28th April: B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott, 2007; Makova & Li, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Makova & Li, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Luminet et al., 2003)

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