How to format your references using the Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology (JCAA). 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

Verduzco, R. 2015 Actuating materials. Shape-shifting liquid crystals. Science (New York, N.Y.) 347(6225): 949–950.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pimm, SL and Brown, JH. 2004 Ecology. Domains of diversity. Science (New York, N.Y.) 304(5672): 831–833.

A journal article with 3 authors

Greiner, M, Regal, CA and Jin, DS. 2003 Emergence of a molecular Bose-Einstein condensate from a Fermi gas. Nature 426(6966): 537–540.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

D’Costa, VM, McGrann, KM, Hughes, DW and Wright, GD. 2006 Sampling the antibiotic resistome. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311(5759): 374–377.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nomura, S. 2016. Micromechanics with Mathematica. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Coen, S (ed.). 2012. Mathematicians in Bologna 1861–1960. Basel: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Kim, CH and Quisquater, J-J. 2008 New Differential Fault Analysis on AES Key Schedule: Two Faults Are Enough. In:. Grimaud, G and Standaert, F-X (eds.). Smart Card Research and Advanced Applications: 8th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference, CARDIS 2008, London, UK, September 8-11, 2008. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 48–60.

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 Computer Applications in Archaeology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Kenya Is A Breastfeeding Success Story But Still Has Its Challenges. IFLScience, 3 August 2015. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/kenya-breastfeeding-success-story-still-has-its-challenges/ [Last accessed 30 October 2018].

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. 2003 Electronic Government: Challenges to the Adoption of Smart Card Technology.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Rutherford, C. 2010. The education of Dr. Khalil Totah. Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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), SK. 2005 World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Last Regional Governor’s Election.. New York Times 25 January, A7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Verduzco 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Pimm and Brown 2004; Verduzco 2015).

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

Two authors: (Pimm and Brown 2004)
Three authors: (Greiner, Regal and Jin 2003)
4 or more authors: (D’Costa et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Appl. Archaeol.
ISSN (online)	2514-8362
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