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

Kowalchuk, GA. 2012 Ecology. Bad news for soil carbon sequestration?. Science (New York, N.Y.) 337(6098): 1049–1050.

A journal article with 2 authors

van Der Merwe, PA and Davis, SJ. 2002 Immunology. The immunological synapse--a multitasking system. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295(5559): 1479–1480.

A journal article with 3 authors

Allison, KR, Brynildsen, MP and Collins, JJ. 2011 Metabolite-enabled eradication of bacterial persisters by aminoglycosides. Nature 473(7346): 216–220.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brenner, R, Peréz, GJ, Bonev, AD, Eckman, DM, Kosek, JC, Wiler, SW, Patterson, AJ, Nelson, MT and Aldrich, RW. 2000 Vasoregulation by the beta1 subunit of the calcium-activated potassium channel. Nature 407(6806): 870–876.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

French, BA. 2016. Chronicles Through the Centuries. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Schmicking, D and Gallagher, S (eds.). 2010. Handbook of Phenomenology and Cognitive Science. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

van Schalkwyk, GJ and Hoi, KKM. 2016 Youths’ Reasoning About Higher Education in Macao. In:. King, RB and Bernardo, ABI (eds.). The Psychology of Asian Learners: A Festschrift in Honor of David Watkins. Singapore: Springer. pp. 71–84.

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. The Answer To Tackling Superbugs Could Be … More Superbugs. IFLScience, 8 May 2015. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/answer-tackling-superbugs-could-be-more-superbugs/ [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. 1991 The Intermodal Approach to Transportation.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Echols, KI. 2017. Authentic Leadership, Research Integrity, and Institutions of Higher Learning: Why Focusing on Departmental Leadership is Critical for Preserving the Sanctity of Science. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State, MS: Mississippi State 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

Walsh, MW. 2012 When a County Runs Off the Cliff.. New York Times 18 February, BU1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kowalchuk 2012).
This sentence cites two references (van Der Merwe and Davis 2002; Kowalchuk 2012).

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

Two authors: (van Der Merwe and Davis 2002)
Three authors: (Allison, Brynildsen and Collins 2011)
4 or more authors: (Brenner et al. 2000)

About the journal

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