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

Schllwa, M., 2000. Centrioles go for a stroll. Nature 405, 292.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marek, P.E., Bond, J.E., 2006. Biodiversity hotspots: rediscovery of the world’s leggiest animal. Nature 441, 707.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yi-Xiang, Y., Ye, J., Liu, W.-M., 2013. Goldstone and Higgs modes of photons inside a cavity. Sci. Rep. 3, 3476.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Streets, D.G., Jiang, K., Hu, X., Sinton, J.E., Zhang, X.Q., Xu, D., Jacobson, M.Z., Hansen, J.E., 2001. Climate change. Recent reductions in China’s greenhouse gas emissions. Science 294, 1835–1837.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Fu, F., 2015. Advanced Modelling Techniques in Structural Design. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Shah, R.B., 2012. Prostate Biopsy Interpretation: An Illustrated Guide. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Chan, C.-S., Dang, A., Tong, Z., 2005. A 3D Model of the Inner City of Beijing, in: Martens, B., Brown, A. (Eds.), Computer Aided Architectural Design Futures 2005: Proceedings of the 11th International CAAD Futures Conference Held at the Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria, on June 20–22, 2005. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 63–72.

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

Hamilton, K., 2017. Gigantic Extinct Worm With Impressively Large Jaws Discovered In Canada [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/gigantic-extinct-worm-with-impressively-large-jaws-discovered-in-canada/ (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, 2007. Passenger Rail Security: Federal Strategy and Enhanced Coordination Needed to Prioritize and Guide Security Efforts (No. GAO-07-583T). 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

Parker, H.A., 2017. Virtual Mate Poaching: A study of the tactics used to poach a potential mate on Social Networking Sites (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2004. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Head Of Exile Church In First Visit. New York Times A10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schllwa, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Marek and Bond, 2006; Schllwa, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Marek and Bond, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Streets et al., 2001)

About the journal

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