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

Keller, R., 2002. Shaping the vertebrate body plan by polarized embryonic cell movements. Science 298, 1950–1954.

A journal article with 2 authors

Keeling, P.J., Palmer, J.D., 2000. Parabasalian flagellates are ancient eukaryotes. Nature 405, 635–637.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hansen, L.N., Zimmerman, M.E., Kohlstedt, D.L., 2012. Laboratory measurements of the viscous anisotropy of olivine aggregates. Nature 492, 415–418.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Najman, Y., Pringle, M., Godin, L., Oliver, G., 2001. Dating of the oldest continental sediments from the Himalayan foreland basin. Nature 410, 194–197.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pratt, T.H., 2010. Electrostatic Ignitions of Fires and Explosions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Tsubaki, H., Yamada, S., Nishina, K. (Eds.), 2008. The Grammar of Technology Development. Springer Japan, Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Różanowski, K., Piotrowski, Z., Sondej, T., Sawicki, K., Głowacki, M., 2012. Wireless Driver and Vehicle Surveillance System Based on IEEE 802.11 Networks, in: Vinel, A., Mehmood, R., Berbineau, M., Garcia, C.R., Huang, C.-M., Chilamkurti, N. (Eds.), Communication Technologies for Vehicles: 4th International Workshop, Nets4Cars/Nets4Trains 2012, Vilnius, Lithuania, April 25-27, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 57–67.

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

Andrews, R., 2017. Discovery Of The Source Of World’s Largest Methane Pool Is Anything But Good News [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/discovery-worlds-largest-methane-pool-anything-good-news/ (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, 1983. Federal Agencies Could Save Time and Money With Better Computer Software Alternatives (No. AFMD-83-29). 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

Kilpatrick, R.F., 2010. A World Less Paved (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Tomasky, M., 2017. A Bad Deal for Democrats. New York Times A27.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keller, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Keeling and Palmer, 2000; Keller, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Keeling and Palmer, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Najman et al., 2001)

About the journal

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