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

Lazer, D., 2015. Social sciences. The rise of the social algorithm. Science 348, 1090–1091.

A journal article with 2 authors

Marks, C.O., Muller-Landau, H.C., 2007. Comment on “From plant traits to plant communities: a statistical mechanistic approach to biodiversity.” Science 316, 1425; author reply 1425.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kanai, T., Minemoto, S., Sakai, H., 2005. Quantum interference during high-order harmonic generation from aligned molecules. Nature 435, 470–474.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Li, H., Collado, M., Villasante, A., Strati, K., Ortega, S., Cañamero, M., Blasco, M.A., Serrano, M., 2009. The Ink4/Arf locus is a barrier for iPS cell reprogramming. Nature 460, 1136–1139.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wong, B.P., Mittal, A., Cao, Y., Starr, G., 2005. Nano-CMOS Circuit and Physical Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dokić, B.L., 2015. Power Electronics: Converters and Regulators, 3rd ed. 2015. ed. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bugge, K.-E., O’Gorman, B., Hill, I., Welter, F., 2010. Regional Sustainability, Innovation and Welfare Through an Adaptive Process Model, in: Sarkis, J., Cordeiro, J.J., Vazquez Brust, D. (Eds.), Facilitating Sustainable Innovation through Collaboration: A Multi-Stakeholder Perspective. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 77–96.

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

Hamilton, K., 2015. Watch SpaceX Launch Their Reusable Rocket LIVE [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1969. Selection, Negotiation, and Award of Certain Contracts, NASA (No. 092718). 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

Lund, B.C., 2017. Physiological response to cycling at different pedal rates during high intensity interval training (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

Mcdonough, J., 2017. My Sister Wants to Buy My Dad a Drone For Father’s Day. New York Times MM22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lazer, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Lazer, 2015; Marks and Muller-Landau, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Marks and Muller-Landau, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2009)

About the journal

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