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

Riordan, CG. 2015 Organometallic Chemistry. Catalysis by nickel in its high oxidation state. Science (New York, N.Y.) 347(6227): 1203–1204.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simon, R and Stahl, Y. 2006 Botany. Plant cells CLEave their way to differentiation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 313(5788): 773–774.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jia, H, Liggins, JR and Chow, WS. 2014 Entropy and biological systems: experimentally-investigated entropy-driven stacking of plant photosynthetic membranes. Scientific reports 4: 4142.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ali, MA, Srivastava, S, Solanki, PR, Reddy, V, Agrawal, VV, Kim, C, John, R and Malhotra, BD. 2013 Highly efficient bienzyme functionalized nanocomposite-based microfluidics biosensor platform for biomedical application. Scientific reports 3: 2661.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wells, AR and Chiang, K. 2017. Monetizing Your Data. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bastos, MA, Lebre, A, Samko, S and Spitkovsky, IM (eds.). 2014. Operator Theory, Operator Algebras and Applications. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Basel: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gepts, P, Aragão, FJL, Barros, E de, Blair, MW, Brondani, R, Broughton, W, Galasso, I, Hernández, G, Kami, J, Lariguet, P, McClean, P, Melotto, M, Miklas, P, Pauls, P, Pedrosa-Harand, A, Porch, T, Sánchez, F, Sparvoli, F and Yu, K. 2008 Genomics of Phaseolus Beans, a Major Source of Dietary Protein and Micronutrients in the Tropics. In:. Moore, PH and Ming, R (eds.). Genomics of Tropical Crop Plants. Plant Genetics and Genomics: Crops and Models. New York, NY: Springer. pp. 113–143.

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

Bedell-Pearce, H. 2017. Watch The Launch Of A 3D Printed Carbon Fiber Rocket. IFLScience, 25 May 2017. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-the-launch-of-a-3d-printed-carbon-fiber-rocket/ [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. 1998 Federal Education Funding: Multiple Programs and Lack of Data Raise Efficiency and Effectiveness Concerns (Supplemental Information to Testimony).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lamanna, SG. 2012. Colombian Spanish in North Carolina: The role of language and dialect contact in the formation of a new variety of U.S. Spanish. Doctoral dissertation. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University.

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

Mann, J. 2016 A Foreign Policy Team of Rivals.. New York Times 17 December, SR11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Riordan 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Riordan 2015; Simon and Stahl 2006).

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

Two authors: (Simon and Stahl 2006)
Three authors: (Jia, Liggins and Chow 2014)
4 or more authors: (Ali et al. 2013)

About the journal

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