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

C. Herzberg, “Geochemistry. Food for a volcanic diet,” Science 316 (2007) 378–79

A journal article with 2 authors

X. Ou and H. Wu, “Impact of spin-orbit coupling on the magnetism of Sr₃MIrO₆ (M = Ni, Co),” Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 4609

A journal article with 3 authors

Y. Oka, M. Ye and C.S. Zuker, “Thirst driving and suppressing signals encoded by distinct neural populations in the brain,” Nature 520 (2015) 349–52

A journal article with 4 or more authors

S. Park, B.T. Lim, B. Kim, H.J. Son and D.S. Chung, “High mobility polymer based on a π-extended benzodithiophene and its application for fast switching transistor and high gain photoconductor,” Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5482

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

R.W. Welker, R. Nagarajan and C.E. Newberg, Contamination and ESD Control in High-Technology Manufacturing (Hoboken, NJ 2005)

An edited book

S. Boonkrong, H. Unger and P. Meesad (edd.), Recent Advances in Information and Communication Technology: Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computing and Information Technology (IC2IT2014) (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, 2014)

A chapter in an edited book

H.J.M. Meijer, M. Essers, H. Struikmans, J.L.M. Venselaar and P. Poortmans, “Contributions and Risks of Radiation Therapy in Managing Cancer During Pregnancy,” in H.A. Azim Jr (ed.), Managing Cancer during Pregnancy (Cham 2016) 41–54

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

J. Fang, Teenager Develops Test That Can Diagnose Alzheimer’s Before Symptoms (2015)

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, The Process for Identifying Needs and Establishing Requirements (Washington, DC 1974)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

T. Lee, Implementation of an after-school program to reduce the suicide risk of transgender youth: A grant proposal (Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach 2013)

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

J. Barron, “Van Wyck Guardrails Take a Beating From Cars and Trump,” New York Times (2017) A21

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