How to format your references using the Journal of Cultural Heritage citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Cultural Heritage. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
[1]
J.K. Balch, Atmospheric science: drought and fire change sink to source, Nature 506 (2014) 41–42.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
R.E. Evenson, D. Gollin, Assessing the impact of the green revolution, 1960 to 2000, Science 300 (2003) 758–762.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
O. Berné, N. Marcelino, J. Cernicharo, Waves on the surface of the Orion molecular cloud, Nature 466 (2010) 947–949.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
[1]
G.-Y. Chen, J. Tang, P. Zheng, Y. Liu, CD24 and Siglec-10 selectively repress tissue damage-induced immune responses, Science 323 (2009) 1722–1725.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
A. Shahidi, Balanced Asset Allocation, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2014.
An edited book
[1]
M. Karanika-Murray, C. Biron, eds., Derailed Organizational Interventions for Stress and Well-Being: Confessions of Failure and Solutions for Success, 1st ed. 2015, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2015.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
G.P. Curbera, W.J. Ricker, Vector Measures, Integration and Applications, in: K. Boulabiar, G. Buskes, A. Triki (Eds.), Positivity, Birkhäuser, Basel, 2007: pp. 127–160.

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 Cultural Heritage.

Blog post
[1]
R. Andrews, New Satellite Returns First Remarkable Image Of The Arctic, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-eu-radar-satellite-returns-first-remarkable-image-norwegian-arctic/ (accessed October 30, 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
[1]
Government Accountability Office, Information Technology Investment Management: A Framework for Assessing and Improving Process Maturity (Supersedes AIMD-10.1.23), U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2004.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
C.L. Horning, Kinesthetic learning in algebra and its effects on students’ achievement and disposition toward mathemathics, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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
[1]
M. Pilon, Drug-Testing Company Tied to N.C.A.A. Stirs Criticism, New York Times (2013) SP1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal titleJournal of Cultural Heritage
AbbreviationJ. Cult. Herit.
ISSN (print)1296-2074
ScopeHistory
Conservation
Chemistry (miscellaneous)
Anthropology

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