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:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Download the output style file
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

[1]

L. Stewart, Gerontology: Will you still need me, will you still feed me?, Nature. 514 (2014) S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

N. Seddon, T. Bearpark, Observation of the inverse Doppler effect, Science. 302 (2003) 1537–1540.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

A.J. Cohen, P. Mori-Sánchez, W. Yang, Insights into current limitations of density functional theory, Science. 321 (2008) 792–794.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

A. Lebreton, G. Lakisic, V. Job, L. Fritsch, T.N. Tham, A. Camejo, P.-J. Matteï, B. Regnault, M.-A. Nahori, D. Cabanes, A. Gautreau, S. Ait-Si-Ali, A. Dessen, P. Cossart, H. Bierne, A bacterial protein targets the BAHD1 chromatin complex to stimulate type III interferon response, Science. 331 (2011) 1319–1321.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

J.L. Paris, J.L. Paris, CliffsNotes® Praxis II®, Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2008.

An edited book

[1]

M.P. Zylka, H. Fuehres, A. Fronzetti Colladon, P.A. Gloor, eds., Designing Networks for Innovation and Improvisation: Proceedings of the 6th International COINs Conference, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Mantel, H. Sudbrock, Information-Theoretic Modeling and Analysis of Interrupt-Related Covert Channels, in: P. Degano, J. Guttman, F. Martinelli (Eds.), Formal Aspects in Security and Trust: 5th International Workshop, FAST 2008 Malaga, Spain, October 9-10, 2008 Revised Selected Papers, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009: pp. 67–81.

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]

K. Hamilton, What If Several Of The World’s Biggest Food Crops Failed At The Same Time?, IFLScience. (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/environment/what-if-several-of-the-worlds-biggest-food-crops-failed-at-the-same-time/ (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, Air Traffic Control: System Management Capabilities Improved, but More Can Be Done to Institutionalize Improvements, 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]

K. Holmes, Ethical practice online: An exploration of provider liability risk among practitioners in the emerging field of online therapy, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, 2008.

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]

G. Vecsey, A Great Goal for the United States, But Not the First or Only Great One, New York Times. (2010) 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 title	Journal of Cultural Heritage
Abbreviation	J. Cult. Herit.
ISSN (print)	1296-2074
Scope	History Conservation Chemistry (miscellaneous) Anthropology

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