How to format your references using the Journal of Maritime Archaeology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Maritime Archaeology. 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

Lichten M (2015) Molecular biology. Putting the breaks on meiosis. Science 350:913

A journal article with 2 authors

Shlomai A, Rice CM (2014) Virology. Getting rid of a persistent troublemaker to cure hepatitis. Science 343:1212–1213

A journal article with 3 authors

Vogel EK, McCollough AW, Machizawa MG (2005) Neural measures reveal individual differences in controlling access to working memory. Nature 438:500–503

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ghosh S, Rosenbaum TF, Aeppli G, Coppersmith SN (2003) Entangled quantum state of magnetic dipoles. Nature 425:48–51

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ramamoorti S, Morrison DE III, Koletar JW, Pope KR (2013) A.B.C.’s of Behavioral Forensics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Jikeli G, Allouche-Benayoun J (eds) (2013) Perceptions of the Holocaust in Europe and Muslim Communities: Sources, Comparisons and Educational Challenges. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Perez-Ruiz F, Herrero-Beites AM (2014) Treatment of Hyperuricemia in Gout. In: Herrero-Beites AM (ed) Managing Gout in Primary Care. Springer Healthcare Ltd., Tarporley, pp 41–52

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 Maritime Archaeology.

Blog post

Andrew D (2017) Here Are The “Smartest” Dog Breeds, According To A Psychologist. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2014) College Debit Cards: Actions Needed to Address ATM Access, Student Choice, and Transparency. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Smith KA (2010) Impact of animal assisted therapy reading instruction on reading performance of homeschooled students. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral 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

Kishkovsky S (2007) Dmitri Prigov, 66, Poet Who Challenged Soviet Authority. New York Times A21

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lichten 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Shlomai and Rice 2014; Lichten 2015).

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

Two authors: (Shlomai and Rice 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ghosh et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Maritime Archaeology
Abbreviation	J. Marit. Archaeol.
ISSN (print)	1557-2285
ISSN (online)	1557-2293
Scope	Archaeology