How to format your references using the Journal of Roman Archaeology (B) citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Roman Archaeology (B). 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

W.J. Marciano, “Particle physics: quarks are not ambidextrous,” Nature 506 (2014) 43–44

A journal article with 2 authors

S. Stahler and F. Palla, “Astronomy. The beat of young stars,” Science 345 (2014) 514–15

A journal article with 3 authors

L. Yang, N. Yang and B. Li, “Reduction of thermal conductivity by nanoscale 3D phononic crystal,” Sci. Rep. 3 (2013) 1143

A journal article with 4 or more authors

M. Gao, R.E. Nettles, M. Belema, L.B. Snyder, V.N. Nguyen, R.A. Fridell, M.H. Serrano-Wu, D.R. Langley, J.-H. Sun, D.R. O’Boyle 2nd, J.A. Lemm, C. Wang, J.O. Knipe, C. Chien, R.J. Colonno, D.M. Grasela, N.A. Meanwell and L.G. Hamann, “Chemical genetics strategy identifies an HCV NS5A inhibitor with a potent clinical effect,” Nature 465 (2010) 96–100

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

K. Stoute, Help, I’m Rich! (Chichester, UK 2014)

An edited book

I. Itenberg, Tropical Algebraic Geometry (Oberwolfach Seminars, 2009)

A chapter in an edited book

G.W. Holden and R. Ashraf, “Children’s Right to Safety: The Problem of Corporal Punishment in Pakistan,” in S. Deb (ed.), Child Safety, Welfare and Well-being: Issues and Challenges (New Delhi 2016) 59–74

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 Roman Archaeology (B).

Blog post

R. Andrews, Large Hadron Collider Shut Down After Weasel Chews Through Wiring (2016)

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, Aviation and the Environment: FAA’s and NASA’s Research and Development Plans for Noise Reduction Are Aligned but the Prospects of Achieving Noise Reduction Goals Are Uncertain (Washington, DC 2008)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

R.A. Russo, Using a socio -cultural framework to evaluate farmland preservation policy success in Maryland (Doctoral dissertation, University of Maryland, College Park 2009)

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

S. Kishkovsky, “Fabergé Eggs May Be Shown In City Where Czar Was Killed,” New York Times (2004) E3

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Roman Archaeology (B)
ISSN (print)	1047-7594
Scope	Archaeology Classics Visual Arts and Performing Arts