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

Buchenau J (2009) Global Darwin: Multicultural mergers. Nature 462(7271): 284–285.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberts RG and Sutikna T (2013) Michael John Morwood (1950-2013). Nature 500(7463): 401.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang L, Treisman A and Pashler H (2007) Characterizing the limits of human visual awareness. Science 317(5839): 823–825.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Moore GF, Bangs NL, Taira A, Kuramoto S, Pangborn E and Tobin HJ (2007) Three-dimensional splay fault geometry and implications for tsunami generation. Science 318(5853): 1128–1131.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kumacheva E and Garstecki P (2011) Microfluidic Reactors for Polymer Particles. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Jäger W, Rannacher R and Warnatz J eds (2007) Reactive Flows, Diffusion and Transport: From Experiments via Mathematical Modeling to Numerical Simulation and Optimization Final Report of SFB (Collaborative Research Center) 359. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Manton KG, Akushevich I and Kravchenko J (2009) Standard and Innovative Statistical Methods for Empirically Analyzing Cancer Morbidity and Mortality. In Akushevich I and Kravchenko J (eds) Cancer Mortality and Morbidity Patterns in the U.S. Population: An Interdisciplinary Approach Statistics for Biology and Health. New York, NY: Springer, 151–189.

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

Hamilton K (2016) Why Has Japan’s Massacre Of Disabled Gone Unnoticed? For Answers, Look To The Past. (consulted October 2018: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-has-japans-massacre-of-disabled-gone-unnoticed-for-answers-look-to-the-past/)

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 (1996) FCC: Flexible Service Offerings in the Commercial Mobile Radio Services. 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

Tofthagen CS (2008) Development and psychometric evaluation of the Chemotherapy Induced Peripheral Neuropathy Assessment Tool. Doctoral dissertation. Tampa, FL: University of South Florida.

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

Poniewozik J (2017) The President Changes His Tone, if Not His Tune. New York Timesp.: A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Buchenau, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Buchenau, 2009; Roberts and Sutikna, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Roberts and Sutikna, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Moore et al., 2007)

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