How to format your references using the Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia (RPA). 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

HOUGHTON, John (2008) – Meetings that changed the world: Madrid 1995: Diagnosing climate change. Nature. 455:7214, pp. 737–738.

A journal article with 2 authors

LI, Guangyuan; ZHANG, Jiasen (2014) – Ultra-broadband and efficient surface plasmon polariton launching through metallic nanoslits of subwavelength period. Scientific reports. 4, p. 5914.

A journal article with 3 authors

YOO, Andrew S.; BAIS, Carlos; GREENWALD, Iva (2004) – Crosstalk between the EGFR and LIN-12/Notch pathways in C. elegans vulval development. Science (New York, N.Y.). 303:5658, pp. 663–666.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

GERBER, Sabina; COMELLAS-BIGLER, Mireia; GOETZ, Birke A.; LOCHER, Kaspar P. (2008) – Structural basis of trans-inhibition in a molybdate/tungstate ABC transporter. Science (New York, N.Y.). 321:5886, pp. 246–250.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

XU, Q. Alan; MADDEN, Timothy L. (2011) – Analytical Methods for Therapeutic Drug Monitoring and Toxicology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

XIA, Ying (Ed.) (2015) – Neural Functions of the Delta-Opioid Receptor. Cham: Springer International Publishing (1st ed. 2015).

A chapter in an edited book

MYERS, Jenny; MARESH, Michael (2012) – Clinical Management. In OVESEN, Per Glud & MØLLER JENSEN, Dorte, eds. – Maternal Obesity and Pregnancy Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 43–62.

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 Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia.

Blog post

HALE, Tom (2016, December 6) – Scientists Finally Understand The 100-Year-Old Mystery Of This Sea Blob.

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 (2015) – Independent Auditor’s Report on Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2015 Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund. 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

TERRY, Ernita J. (2008) – In search of leadership: A look at women presidents in Georgia’s two-year colleges and technical colleges.

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

QUAIN, John R. (2017, April 6) – Your Car May Soon Be Able to Read Your Face. New York Times. p. B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Houghton 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Houghton 2008, Li & Zhang 2014).

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

Two authors: (Li & Zhang 2014)
Three or more authors: (Gerber et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia
ISSN (print)	0874-2782
Scope