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

Lamacraft A (2015) Physics. New SQUID on the Bloch. Science 347:232–233

A journal article with 2 authors

Ekström G, Stark CP (2013) Simple scaling of catastrophic landslide dynamics. Science 339:1416–1419

A journal article with 3 authors

Gupta AK, Anderson DM, Overpeck JT (2003) Abrupt changes in the Asian southwest monsoon during the Holocene and their links to the North Atlantic Ocean. Nature 421:354–357

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Bates AE, Helmuth B, Burrows MT, et al (2018) Biologists ignore ocean weather at their peril. Nature 560:299–301

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gwynne A (2013) Guide to Building Control. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK

An edited book

Thampi SM, Gelbukh A, Mukhopadhyay J (eds) (2014) Advances in Signal Processing and Intelligent Recognition Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Dao TH (2011) Extracellular Enzymes in Sensing Environmental Nutrients and Ecosystem Changes: Ligand Mediation in Organic Phosphorus Cycling. In: Shukla G, Varma A (eds) Soil Enzymology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 75–102

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

O`Callaghan J (2017) Weird Meteor Noises Might Be Caused By Light Heating Your Hair. 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) NASA: Human Space Exploration Programs Face Challenges. 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

Alayed RA (2010) Creating a culture of safety using electronic medical records as a tool. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kelly M (1992) THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Undeclared Candidate; Seeking Better Image, Perot Shifts Campaign. New York Times A12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lamacraft 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Ekström and Stark 2013; Lamacraft 2015).

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

Two authors: (Ekström and Stark 2013)
Three or more authors: (Bates et al. 2018)

About the journal

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