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

O’Hara, K., 2010. Canada must free scientists to talk to journalists. Nature 467, 501.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kasthuri, N., Lichtman, J.W., 2003. The role of neuronal identity in synaptic competition. Nature 424, 426–430.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dolan, J.F., Christofferson, S.A., Shaw, J.H., 2003. Recognition of paleoearthquakes on the Puente Hills blind thrust fault, California. Science 300, 115–118.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yan, H., Yu, H., Xing, W., Xiao, Y., Zhang, H., Pei, L., Zhang, N., Jiang, Y., 2014. Development of a proficiency testing program for the HIV-1 BED incidence assay in China. Sci. Rep. 4, 4512.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Toy, M., 2012. Networks and Services. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Piquero, A.R., Weisburd, D. (Eds.), 2010. Handbook of Quantitative Criminology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Xu, W., Li, F., 2011. Balanced Ridge Estimator of Coefficient in Linear Model under a Balanced Loss Function (I), in: Zhu, M. (Ed.), Information and Management Engineering: International Conference, ICCIC 2011, Wuhan, China, September 17-18, 2011. Proceedings, Part VI, Communications in Computer and Information Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 20–25.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. 55 million-year-old ancestor of lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!) has been discovered [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, 2005. Aviation Security: Federal Action Needed to Strengthen Domestic Air Cargo Security (No. GAO-06-76). 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

Spidell, R.M., 2017. Reexamining Richard Strauss’s Second Horn Concerto as a Significant Contribution to Twentieth-Century Music (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

Rothenberg, B., 2016. Unshaken by Her Low Ranking, Wozniacki Easily Defeats Keys. New York Times D4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (O’Hara, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Kasthuri and Lichtman, 2003; O’Hara, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Kasthuri and Lichtman, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Yan 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