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

Griffith, C. A. (2014). Solar system: Not just a storm in a teacup. Nature 514: 40–41.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kunz, W. and Kellermeier, M. (2009). Materials science. Beyond biomineralization. Science 323: 344–345.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wood, M. J., Storz, G. and Tjandra, N. (2004). Structural basis for redox regulation of Yap1 transcription factor localization. Nature 430: 917–921.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Donley, J. M., Sepulveda, C. A., Konstantinidis, P., Gemballa, S. and Shadwick, R. E. (2004). Convergent evolution in mechanical design of lamnid sharks and tunas. Nature 429: 61–65.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jackson, J. (2012). Political Oratory and Cartooning, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Parkin, G. ed. (2010). Metal-Metal Bonding, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Roussopoulos, N. and Utz, W. (2016). Design Semantics on Accessibility in Unstructured Data Environments. In D. Karagiannis H. C. Mayr and J. Mylopoulos (eds.), Domain-Specific Conceptual Modeling: Concepts, Methods and Tools, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp.79–101.

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

Andrews, R. (2015). Herpes Virus Recruited To Fight Against Skin Cancer (consulted October 2018: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/herpes-virus-recruited-fight-against-skin-cancer/).

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 (1997). Department of Education: Multiple, Nonintegrated Systems Hamper Management of Student Financial Aid Programs, 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

Dotson, K. T. (2009). Smoke points of microgravity and normal gravity coflow diffusion flames, 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

Shear, M. D. and Plumer, B. (2017). Trump Has Choice to Make Between Science and His Base. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Griffith 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Griffith 2014; Kunz and Kellermeier 2009).

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

Two authors: (Kunz and Kellermeier 2009)
Three or more authors: (Donley et al. 2004)

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