How to format your references using the Journal of World Prehistory citation style

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

Moore, P. B. (2005). Structural biology. A ribosomal coup: E. coli at last! Science (New York, N.Y.), 310(5749), 793–795.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dauphas, N., & Kasting, J. F. (2011). Low pCO2 in the pore water, not in the Archean air. Nature, 474(7349), E2-3; discussion E4-5.

A journal article with 3 authors

LaDeau, S. L., Kilpatrick, A. M., & Marra, P. P. (2007). West Nile virus emergence and large-scale declines of North American bird populations. Nature, 447(7145), 710–713.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Meshorer, E., Erb, C., Gazit, R., Pavlovsky, L., Kaufer, D., Friedman, A., et al. (2002). Alternative splicing and neuritic mRNA translocation under long-term neuronal hypersensitivity. Science (New York, N.Y.), 295(5554), 508–512.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cruz, M. G., Peters, G. W., & Shevchenko, P. V. (2015). Fundamental Aspects of Operational Risk and Insurance Analytics. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Karagiannidis, A. (Ed.). (2012). Waste to Energy: Opportunities and Challenges for Developing and Transition Economies. London: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ramos, N. M. M., Delgado, J. M. P. Q., Almeida, R. M. S. F., Simões, M. L., & Manuel, S. (2016). Application of Data Mining Techniques. In J. M. P. Q. Delgado, R. M. S. F. Almeida, M. L. Simões, & S. Manuel (Eds.), Application of Data Mining Techniques in the Analysis of Indoor Hygrothermal Conditions (pp. 37–45). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 World Prehistory.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2017, February 7). Granddad The Lungfish, World’s Oldest Aquarium Fish, Dies At Ridiculously Old Age. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/granddad-the-lungfish-worlds-oldest-aquarium-fish-dies-at-ridiculously-old-age/. Accessed 30 October 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. (2004). Telecommunications: Issues Related to Federal Funding for Public Television by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (No. GAO-04-284). 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

Reig, M. A. (2008). Cross-Dialectal Variability in Propositional Anaphora: A Quantitative and Pragmatic Study of Null Objects in Mexican and Peninsular Spanish (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Hollander, S. (2002, September 21). With More Ice Time, Cohen Looks Ahead. New York Times, p. D7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moore 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Dauphas and Kasting 2011; Moore 2005).

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

Two authors: (Dauphas and Kasting 2011)
Three or more authors: (Meshorer et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of World Prehistory
Abbreviation	J. World Prehist.
ISSN (print)	0892-7537
ISSN (online)	1573-7802
Scope	General Arts and Humanities Archaeology