How to format your references using the Journal of Archaeological Research citation style

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

Zimmer, C. (2000). EVOLUTION: Parasites Make Scaredy-Rats Foolhardy. Science 289: 525b–7b.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yang, T. and Shadlen, M. N. (2007). Probabilistic reasoning by neurons. Nature 447: 1075–1080.

A journal article with 3 authors

Marsh, A. G., Maxson, R. E., Jr and Manahan, D. T. (2001). High macromolecular synthesis with low metabolic cost in Antarctic sea urchin embryos. Science 291: 1950–1952.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ruban, A. V., Wentworth, M., Yakushevska, A. E., Andersson, J., Lee, P. J., Keegstra, W., Dekker, J. P., Boekema, E. J., Jansson, S. and Horton, P. (2003). Plants lacking the main light-harvesting complex retain photosystem II macro-organization. Nature 421: 648–652.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Massotte, P. and Corsi, P. (2017). Smart Decisions in Complex Systems, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Alpay, D. and Vinnikov, V. eds. (2005). Operator Theory, Systems Theory and Scattering Theory: Multidimensional Generalizations, Birkhäuser, Basel.

A chapter in an edited book

Kossack, N. J., Gromoll, J. and Reijo Pera, R. A. (2009). Human Embryonic Stem Cells and Germ Cell Development. In V. K. Rajasekhar and M. C. Vemuri (eds.), Regulatory Networks in Stem Cells, Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, pp.55–66.

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 Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). Watch Cheetah Give Birth To Four Cubs (consulted October 2018: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-cheetah-give-birth-four-cubs/).

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). Guaranteed Student Loans: Eliminating Interest Rate Floors Could Generate Substantial Savings, 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

Baker, B. R. (2012). Schizophrenia-spectrum behavior and peer responses to individuals with social anhedonia, Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Rowan, J. (2016). A Less Than Honorable Policy. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Zimmer 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Yang and Shadlen 2007; Zimmer 2000).

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

Two authors: (Yang and Shadlen 2007)
Three or more authors: (Ruban et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Archaeological Research
Abbreviation	J. Archaeol. Res.
ISSN (print)	1059-0161
ISSN (online)	1573-7756
Scope	General Arts and Humanities Archaeology