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.

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	Download the output style file
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

Hoag, Hannah. 2003. “In Search of Form and Function.” Nature 425 (6960): 880–881.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vafabakhsh, Reza, and Taekjip Ha. 2012. “Extreme Bendability of DNA Less than 100 Base Pairs Long Revealed by Single-Molecule Cyclization.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 337 (6098): 1097–1101.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fuda, Nicholas J., M. Behfar Ardehali, and John T. Lis. 2009. “Defining Mechanisms That Regulate RNA Polymerase II Transcription in Vivo.” Nature 461 (7261): 186–192.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lu, L., X. Chen, X. Huang, and K. Lu. 2009. “Revealing the Maximum Strength in Nanotwinned Copper.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 323 (5914): 607–610.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yukihara, Eduardo G., and Stephen W. S. McKeever. 2011. Optically Stimulated Luminescence. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Cebeci, Tuncer. 2005. Analysis of Low-Speed Unsteady Airfoil Flows. Edited by Max Platzer, Hsun Chen, Kuo-Cheng Chang, and Jian P. Shao. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Burchhardt, Daniela M., and Ammar Sukari. 2016. “Chemotherapy in Head and Neck Squamous Cell Cancer.” In Targeting Oral Cancer, edited by Andrew M. Fribley, 53–68. 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 World Archaeology.

Blog post

Fang, Janet. 2014. “Asian Fungus Is Killing European Salamanders, U.S. May Be Next.” IFLScience. IFLScience.

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. 1977. Indian Education in the Public School System Needs More Direction from the Congress. HRD-76-172. 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

Fischer, David. 2012. “Psychology and People Living with Hiv/Aids: A Critical Review of the Literature.” Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Wines, Michael, and Timothy Williams. 2014. “Huge Leak of Coal Ash Slows at North Carolina Power Plant.” New York Times, February 7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hoag 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Hoag 2003; Vafabakhsh and Ha 2012).

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

Two authors: (Vafabakhsh and Ha 2012)
Three authors: (Fuda, Ardehali, and Lis 2009)
4 or more authors: (Lu et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	World Archaeology
Abbreviation	World Archaeol.
ISSN (print)	0043-8243
ISSN (online)	1470-1375
Scope	Archaeology General Earth and Planetary Sciences