How to format your references using the Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Zoller, P. (2000). Tricks with a single photon. Nature, 404(6776), 340–341.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, Z., & Becker, H. (2013). Ratios of S, Se and Te in the silicate Earth require a volatile-rich late veneer. Nature, 499(7458), 328–331.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mallatt, J., Chen, J., & Holland, N. D. (2003). Comment on “A new species of yunnanozoan with implications for deuterostome evolution.” Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5624), 1372; author reply 1372.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Fender, R., Wu, K., Johnston, H., Tzioumis, T., Jonker, P., Spencer, R., & Van Der Klis, M. (2004). An ultra-relativistic outflow from a neutron star accreting gas from a companion. Nature, 427(6971), 222–224.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fasano, A. (2014). Engineer Your Own Success. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Johannessen, O. M. (2007). Remote Sensing of Sea Ice in the Northern Sea Route: Studies and Applications. (V. Y. Alexandrov, I. Y. Frolov, S. Sandven, L. H. Pettersson, L. P. Bobylev, K. Kloster, et al., Eds.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Nasruddin, F. A., Harun, M. N., Syahrom, A., Kadir, M. R. A., Omar, A. H., & Öchsner, A. (2016). Stiffness of Badminton Racket. In M. N. Harun, A. Syahrom, M. R. Abdul Kadir, A. H. Omar, & A. Öchsner (Eds.), Finite Element Analysis on Badminton Racket Design Parameters (pp. 33–41). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 Archaeological Method and Theory.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015, September 28). The Role Of Science And Innovation In A 21st Century Government. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/role-science-and-innovation-21st-century-government/. 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. (1992). Telecommunications: Concerns About Competition in the Cellular Telephone Service Industry (No. RCED-92-220). 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

Hemschik, T. K. (2008). Course designs, instructional strategies, and support systems in K–8 online education: A case 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

Barron, J. (2017, February 12). Nine Million Desserts, for Gabriel, Michael, Alessandra and More. New York Times, p. A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zoller 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Wang and Becker 2013; Zoller 2000).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Becker 2013)
Three or more authors: (Fender et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory
Abbreviation	J. Archaeol. Method Theory
ISSN (print)	1072-5369
ISSN (online)	1573-7764
Scope	Archaeology