How to format your references using the Archaeometry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archaeometry. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Stocker, T. F., 2013, Climate change. The closing door of climate targets, Science (New York, N.Y.), 339(6117), 280–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hwang, J., and Druffel, E. R. M., 2003, Lipid-like material as the source of the uncharacterized organic carbon in the ocean?, Science (New York, N.Y.), 299(5608), 881–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gugliotti, L. A., Feldheim, D. L., and Eaton, B. E., 2004, RNA-mediated metal-metal bond formation in the synthesis of hexagonal palladium nanoparticles, Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5672), 850–2.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Summerfield, C., Egner, T., Greene, M., Koechlin, E., Mangels, J., and Hirsch, J., 2006, Predictive codes for forthcoming perception in the frontal cortex, Science (New York, N.Y.), 314(5803), 1311–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laykin, E., 2013, Investigative Computer Forensics, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Schneider Beck Fl., A. C., 2010, Dynamic Reconfigurable Architectures and Transparent Optimization Techniques: Automatic Acceleration of Software Execution, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Carta, N., Pani, D., and Raffo, L., 2015, Impact of Threshold Computation Methods in Hardware Wavelet Denoising Implementations for Neural Signal Processing, In Biomedical Engineering Systems and Technologies: 7th International Joint Conference, BIOSTEC 2014, Angers, France, March 3-6, 2014, Revised Selected Papers (eds. G. Plantier, T. Schultz, A. Fred, and H. Gamboa), 66–81, Communications in Computer and Information Science, Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Archaeometry.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014, Ten Things You Really Should Know About Ebola, IFLScience, IFLScience, URL: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/ten-things-you-really-should-know-about-ebola/.

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, USDA Telecommunications: Strong Leadership Needed to Resolve Management Weaknesses, Achieve Savings, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Baugh, J. B., 2008, Deregulation and management strategies: A case study of Georgia System Operations Corporation, Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Gustines, G. G., 2010, Out of the Closet and Up, Up and Away, New York Times, April 18, ST1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stocker 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Hwang and Druffel 2003; Stocker 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hwang and Druffel 2003)
Three or more authors: (Summerfield et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archaeometry
Abbreviation	Archaeometry
ISSN (online)	1475-4754
Scope	History Archaeology