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

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

Lenski, R.E., 2001. Twice as natural. Nature 414, 255.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cheng, C.L., Novales Flamarique, I., 2004. Opsin expression: new mechanism for modulating colour vision. Nature 428, 279.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ackerman, L.K.G., Lovell, M.M., Weix, D.J., 2015. Multimetallic catalysed cross-coupling of aryl bromides with aryl triflates. Nature 524, 454–457.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ikeda, H., Heinke, B., Ruscheweyh, R., Sandkühler, J., 2003. Synaptic plasticity in spinal lamina I projection neurons that mediate hyperalgesia. Science 299, 1237–1240.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis, R.A., 2015. Demand-Driven Inventory Optimization and Replenishment. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA.

An edited book

Benhamou, F. (Ed.), 2006. Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2006: 12th International Conference, CP 2006, Nantes, France, September 25-29, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Acha, E.M., Piola, A., Iribarne, O., Mianzan, H., 2015. Comparisons of Fronts with Other Boundaries at Sea, in: Piola, A., Iribarne, O., Mianzan, H. (Eds.), Ecological Processes at Marine Fronts: Oases in the Ocean, SpringerBriefs in Environmental Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 41–46.

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 Science.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Flashy Fish Don’t Get Lucky [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/flashy-fish-dont-get-lucky/ (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, 1971. Use of Construction Authority by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (No. B-165118). 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

Whitbeck, D.C., 2013. Mapping of Sonoran Desert vegetation communities of San Cristobal Valley and southern Sentinel Plains, Barry M. Goldwater Range and variables influencing route proliferation in the Barry M. Goldwater Range’s San Cristobal Valley (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, 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

Oestreich, J.R., 2016. In the Classical Music World, Sept. 11 Anniversary Will Pass With Little Notice. New York Times C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lenski, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Cheng and Novales Flamarique, 2004; Lenski, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Cheng and Novales Flamarique, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Ikeda et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Archaeological Science
Abbreviation	J. Archaeol. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0305-4403
Scope	History Archaeology