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

Dalton, R. (2003). Researcher uncovers truth behind wartime security slur. Nature 421: 303.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang, X. and Zhou, Z. (2004). Palaeontology: pterosaur embryo from the Early Cretaceous. Nature 429: 621.

A journal article with 3 authors

Beachy, P. A., Karhadkar, S. S. and Berman, D. M. (2004). Mending and malignancy. Nature 431: 402.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Katayama, Y., Inamura, Y., Mizutani, T., Yamakata, M., Utsumi, W. and Shimomura, O. (2004). Macroscopic separation of dense fluid phase and liquid phase of phosphorus. Science 306: 848–851.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ventre, D. (2013). Information Warfare, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Masulli, F., Pasi, G. and Yager, R. eds. (2013). Fuzzy Logic and Applications: 10th International Workshop, WILF 2013, Genoa, Italy, November 19-22, 2013. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Dodero, J. M., Ruiz-Rube, I. and Traverso, I. (2014). Automating Technical Reviews in Software Forges and Repositories Based on Linked Data. In S. Closs R. Studer E. Garoufallou and M.-A. Sicilia (eds.), Metadata and Semantics Research: 8th Research Conference, MTSR 2014, Karlsruhe, Germany, November 27-29, 2014. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp.30–41.

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

Davis, J. (2015). GM Crops that Produce Fish Oil Successfully Grown in the Field (consulted October 2018: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gm-crops-produce-fish-oil-successfully-grown-field/).

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 (2010). Telecommunications: FCC Should Assess the Design of the E-rate Program’s Internal Control Structure, 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

Rardin, E. A. (2017). Corporate Psychopaths and Their Proclivity for Infiltrating Organizations, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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’ Plan to Deal With Injuries: Don’t Talk About Them So Much. New York Times B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dalton 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Dalton 2003; Wang and Zhou 2004).

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

Two authors: (Wang and Zhou 2004)
Three or more authors: (Katayama 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