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

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

Brady O (2014) Scale up the supply of experimental Ebola drugs. Nature 512(7514): 233.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gunanathan C and Milstein D (2013) Applications of acceptorless dehydrogenation and related transformations in chemical synthesis. Science 341(6143): 1229712.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jasny B, Mueller K and Roberts L (2010) HIV/AIDS. HIV/AIDS: Eastern Europe. Introduction. Science 329(5988): 159.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Capadona JR, Shanmuganathan K, Tyler DJ, Rowan SJ and Weder C (2008) Stimuli-responsive polymer nanocomposites inspired by the sea cucumber dermis. Science 319(5868): 1370–1374.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Celant G and Broniatowski M (2016) Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 1. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Doherty G and Blandford A eds (2007) Interactive Systems. Design, Specification, and Verification: 13th International Workshop, DSVIS 2006, Dublin, Ireland, July 26-28, 2006. Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

de Vries MJ (2011) Science in the Context of Industrial Application: The Case of the Philips Natuurkundig Laboratorium. In Carrier M and Nordmann A (eds) Science in the Context of Application Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 47–66.

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 Social Archaeology.

Blog post

Luntz S (2014) Straight Hopping Toads Gain The Most Ground. (consulted October 2018: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/straightest-movers-win-evolutionary-race/)

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 (1993) Energy and Science Reports and Testimony: 1992. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Teo YM (2017) Acculturation Levels, Social Media Usage and Their Relationship with Dietary Patterns among Asian American Young Adults. Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA: 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

Wagner J (2017) With Loss and an Injury, It’s Just Another Day for the Mets. New York Timesp.: B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brady, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Brady, 2014; Gunanathan and Milstein, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Gunanathan and Milstein, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Capadona et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Social Archaeology
Abbreviation	J. Soc. Archaeol.
ISSN (print)	1469-6053
ISSN (online)	1741-2951
Scope	Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Archaeology