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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Goldston D (2007) Washington, we have a problem. Nature 446:244

A journal article with 2 authors

Gilmore MS, Ferretti JJ (2003) Microbiology. The thin line between gut commensal and pathogen. Science 299:1999–2002

A journal article with 3 authors

Geary C, Rothemund PWK, Andersen ES (2014) RNA nanostructures. A single-stranded architecture for cotranscriptional folding of RNA nanostructures. Science 345:799–804

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Shibata N, Goto A, Choi S-Y, et al (2008) Direct imaging of reconstructed atoms on TiO2 (110) surfaces. Science 322:570–573

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Koepsell D (2015) Who Owns You? John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Letiche H (2014) The Relevant PhD. SensePublishers, Rotterdam

A chapter in an edited book

Boland CR (2010) DNA Mismatch Repair. In: Rodriguez-Bigas MA, Cutait R, Lynch PM, et al. (eds) Hereditary Colorectal Cancer. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp 67–85

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 E (2015) The Water Industry Needs To Join The Fight Against Superbugs. 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 (1990) Federal Internal Control and Financial Management Systems: Major Reform Efforts Are Needed. 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

Rahmani M (2017) On the calculation of time-domain impulse-response of systems from band-limited scattering-parameters using wavelet transform. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Williams J (2017) Looking at, and Beyond, a Lifetime of Anxiety. New York Times C2

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldston 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Gilmore and Ferretti 2003; Goldston 2007).

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

Two authors: (Gilmore and Ferretti 2003)
Three or more authors: (Shibata et al. 2008)

About the journal

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