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

SHUKLA, Jagadish (2007) – Atmosphere. Monsoon mysteries. Science (New York, N.Y.). 318:5848, pp. 204–205.

A journal article with 2 authors

O’HIGGINS, Paul; ELTON, Sarah (2007) – Anthropology. Walking on trees. Science (New York, N.Y.). 316:5829, pp. 1292–1294.

A journal article with 3 authors

NOBLE, Martin E. M.; ENDICOTT, Jane A.; JOHNSON, Louise N. (2004) – Protein kinase inhibitors: insights into drug design from structure. Science (New York, N.Y.). 303:5665, pp. 1800–1805.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

ZHONG, Zhaohui; WANG, Deli; CUI, Yi; BOCKRATH, Marc W.; LIEBER, Charles M. (2003) – Nanowire crossbar arrays as address decoders for integrated nanosystems. Science (New York, N.Y.). 302:5649, pp. 1377–1379.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

KROUPA, Věnceslav F. (2005) – Phase Lock Loops and Frequency Synthesis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

BAGLEY, Rebecca G. (Ed.) (2010) – The Tumor Microenvironment. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

LELLOUCHE, Pierre (2010) – Necessary Progress in the Defence of Europe. In ARVANITOPOULOS, Constantine & BOTSIOU, Konstantina E., eds. – The Constantinos Karamanlis Institute for Democracy Yearbook 2010 Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, pp. 33–44.

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, October 14) – Luminescent Bike Paths Light Up Town In Poland.

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 (1998) – Information Security: Serious Weaknesses Put State Department and FAA Operations at Risk. 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

GRASIS, Juris Andris (2008) – Controlling T lymphocyte activation with a molecular rheostat.

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

ROTHENBERG, Ben (2017, January 20) – Young Player Has Made Her Name by Speaking Her Mind. New York Times. p. B9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shukla 2007).
This sentence cites two references (O’Higgins & Elton 2007, Shukla 2007).

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

Two authors: (O’Higgins & Elton 2007)
Three or more authors: (Zhong et al. 2003)

About the journal

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