How to format your references using the Australian Archaeology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian 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	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 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

Billups, K. 2015 Climate science: timing is everything during deglaciations. Nature 522(7555):163–164.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bahr, K. and F. Simpson 2002 Electrical anisotropy below slow- and fast-moving plates: paleoflow in the upper mantle? Science (New York, N.Y.) 295(5558):1270–1272.

A journal article with 3 authors

Altewischer, E., M.P. van Exter, and J.P. Woerdman 2002 Plasmon-assisted transmission of entangled photons. Nature 418(6895):304–306.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yuki, K., Y. Yoshida, R. Inagaki, H. Hiai, and M. Noda 2014 E-cadherin-downregulation and RECK-upregulation are coupled in the non-malignant epithelial cell line MCF10A but not in multiple carcinoma-derived cell lines. Scientific reports 4:4568.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Leis, J.W. 2011 Digital Signal Processing Using MATLAB for Students and Researchers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rahman, M.S. and S.-I. Nakano, editors 2012 WALCOM: Algorithms and Computation: 6th International Workshop, WALCOM 2012, Dhaka, Bangladesh, February 15-17, 2012. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Wei, Z. 2016 The USA and Challenges to East Asia’s Security Order. In D. Arase (ed.), China’s Rise and Changing Order in East Asia, pp.89–105. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

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 Australian Archaeology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. 2016 October 13 Cosmic Mystery Solved By Detailed Map Of The Universe. IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved 30 October 2018 < https://www.iflscience.com/space/cosmic-mystery-solved-by-detailed-map-of-the-universe/ >.

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 1979 Weaknesses in National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s Facilities Utilization Program. 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

Day, K.C. 2017 CPA Perceptions of Human Skills for Professional Competency Development Needs. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Bogdanich, W. 2017 June 17 The Sheriff’s War. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Billups 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bahr and Simpson 2002; Billups 2015).

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

Two authors: (Bahr and Simpson 2002)
Three or more authors: (Yuki et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Archaeology
ISSN (print)	0312-2417
ISSN (online)	2470-0363
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