How to format your references using the World Archaeology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Archaeology. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

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Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.
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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
Veis, Arthur. 2005. “Materials Science. A Window on Biomineralization.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 307 (5714): 1419–1420.
A journal article with 2 authors
Palmer, Margaret A., and Solange Filoso. 2009. “Restoration of Ecosystem Services for Environmental Markets.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 325 (5940): 575–576.
A journal article with 3 authors
Cohen, Jeff, Alex Rau, and Kristian Brüning. 2009. “Climate Change. Bridging the Montreal-Kyoto Gap.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 326 (5955): 940–941.
A journal article with 11 or more authors
Hawkesworth, Chris, Peter Cawood, Tony Kemp, Craig Storey, and Bruno Dhuime. 2009. “Geochemistry. A Matter of Preservation.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 323 (5910): 49–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
Douglas, Bruce. 2008. Achieving Business Success with GIS. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
An edited book
Murgante, Beniamino, Osvaldo Gervasi, Andrés Iglesias, David Taniar, and Bernady O. Apduhan, eds. 2011. Computational Science and Its Applications - ICCSA 2011: International Conference, Santander, Spain, June 20-23, 2011. Proceedings, Part IV. Vol. 6785. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.
A chapter in an edited book
Banerjee, Anuradha, and Paramartha Dutta. 2010. “Fuzzy-Controlled Source-Initiated Multicasting (FSIM) in Ad Hoc Networks.” In Distributed Computing and Internet Technology: 6th International Conference, ICDCIT 2010, Bhubaneswar, India, February 15-17, 2010. Proceedings, edited by Tomasz Janowski and Hrushikesha Mohanty, 55–71. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 World Archaeology.

Blog post
Fang, Janet. 2014. “Oil Spill May Have Caused Heart Defects In Fish.” IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/oil-spill-may-have-caused-heart-defects-fish/.

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. 2011. The Department of Transportation Found That It Improperly Obligated Motor Carrier Grant Funds. GAO-11-517R. 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
Tang, Yun. 2009. “Structure Tailored Properties and Functionalities of Zero-Dimensional Nanostructures.” Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD: University of Maryland, College Park.

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
Reynolds, Mary Louise. 2017. “Fingers Crossed Across Generations.” New York Times, April 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Veis 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Veis 2005; Palmer and Filoso 2009).

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

  • Two authors: (Palmer and Filoso 2009)
  • Three authors: (Cohen, Rau, and Brüning 2009)
  • 4 or more authors: (Hawkesworth et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal titleWorld Archaeology
AbbreviationWorld Archaeol.
ISSN (print)0043-8243
ISSN (online)1470-1375
ScopeArchaeology
General Earth and Planetary Sciences

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