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

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

Hambley, T.W., 2007. Chemistry. Metal-based therapeutics. Science 318, 1392–1393.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cress, C.D., Datta, S., 2013. Engineering. Nanoscale transistors--just around the gate? Science 341, 140–141.

A journal article with 3 authors

Raymond, S.N., Mandell, A.M., Sigurdsson, S., 2006. Exotic Earths: forming habitable worlds with giant planet migration. Science 313, 1413–1416.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Forget, F., Haberle, R.M., Montmessin, F., Levrard, B., Head, J.W., 2006. Formation of glaciers on Mars by atmospheric precipitation at high obliquity. Science 311, 368–371.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Muccini, M., Toffanin, S., 2016. Organic Light-Emitting Transistors. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ali, S.Z., 2007. Breast Cytopathology, Essentials in Cytopathology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Dascal, M., 2006. The Elements of Thinking, in: Dascal, M. (Ed.), Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz: The Art of Controversies, The New Synthese Historical Library. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 29–34.

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: Reports.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Microbes Caused The Extinction Of 90% Of Species 250 Million Years Ago [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/microbes-caused-extinction-90-species-250-million-years-ago/ (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, 2010. Head Start: Undercover Testing Finds Fraud and Abuse at Selected Head Start Centers (No. GAO-10-1049). 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

Abraham, C., 2017. How Are Nonresident African American Fathers Involved in Their Children’s Academic Success? (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Saslow, L., 2006. Village Moves to Deter Illegal Housing. New York Times 14LI9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hambley, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Cress and Datta, 2013; Hambley, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Cress and Datta, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Forget et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports
Abbreviation	J. Archaeol. Sci. Rep.
ISSN (print)	2352-409X
Scope