How to format your references using the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology citation style

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

Kittinger, J.N.J., 2014. A giant leap. Science 345, 110.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feldl, N., Bilham, R., 2006. Great Himalayan earthquakes and the Tibetan plateau. Nature 444, 165–170.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pagel, M., Atkinson, Q.D., Meade, A., 2007. Frequency of word-use predicts rates of lexical evolution throughout Indo-European history. Nature 449, 717–720.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, Q., He, D., Peng, F., Lei, L., Liu, P., Yin, S., Wang, P., Xu, C., Liu, J., 2014. Unusual compression behavior of nanocrystalline CeO₂. Sci. Rep. 4, 4441.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Raymond, S.U., 2013. Recession, Recovery, and Renewal: Long-Term Nonprofit Strategies for Rapid Economic Change. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Mohammed, S., Moreno, J.C., Kong, K., Amirat, Y. (Eds.), 2015. Intelligent Assistive Robots: Recent Advances in Assistive Robotics for Everyday Activities, Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Droste-Franke, B., Paal, B.P., Rehtanz, C., Sauer, D.U., Schneider, J.-P., Schreurs, M., Ziesemer, T., 2012. Demand for Balancing Electrical Energy and Power, in: Paal, B.P., Rehtanz, C., Sauer, D.U., Schneider, J.-P., Schreurs, M., Ziesemer, T. (Eds.), Balancing Renewable Electricity: Energy Storage, Demand Side Management, and Network Extension from an Interdisciplinary Perspective, Ethics of Science and Technology Assessment. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 61–82.

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 Journal of Anthropological Archaeology.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. What Caused China’s ‘Floating City’ In The Sky? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2012. Safety Effects of Less Prescriptive Requirements for Low-Stress Natural Gas Transmission Pipelines Are Uncertain (No. GAO-12-389R). 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

Hernandez, S.S., 2013. Professionals’ perceptions of effective interventions with elderly hoarders (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Wagner, J., 2017. Mets’ Syndergaard Keeps Hitting the Gas. Just How Fast Can He Go? New York Times D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kittinger, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Feldl and Bilham, 2006; Kittinger, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Feldl and Bilham, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Anthropological Archaeology
Abbreviation	J. Anthropol. Archaeol.
ISSN (print)	0278-4165
Scope	History Archaeology Human Factors and Ergonomics