How to format your references using the Bioarchaeology of the Near East citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Bioarchaeology of the Near East (BNE). 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

Midgley P.A. (2011), Materials science. Electronic bonding revealed by electron diffraction, Science (New York, N.Y.) 331(6024):1528–1529.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aide T.M., Grau H.R. (2004), Ecology. Globalization, migration, and Latin American ecosystems, Science (New York, N.Y.) 305(5692):1915–1916.

A journal article with 3 authors

Winston W.M., Molodowitch C., Hunter C.P. (2002), Systemic RNAi in C. elegans requires the putative transmembrane protein SID-1, Science (New York, N.Y.) 295(5564):2456–2459.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Grupe A., Germer S., Usuka J., Aud D., Belknap J.K., Klein R.F., Ahluwalia M.K., Higuchi R., Peltz G. (2001), In silico mapping of complex disease-related traits in mice, Science (New York, N.Y.) 292(5523):1915–1918.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Szpankowski W. (2001), Average Case Analysis of Algorithms on Sequences, Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Keirsbilck B., Devroe W., Claes E. (Eds.) (2009), Facing the Limits of the Law, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Alkan B.B., Atakan C. (2014), Comparison of Principal Component Analysis Biplots Based on Different Robust Covariance Matrix Estimates [in:] “Chaos, Complexity and Leadership 2012,” S. Banerjee, Ş.Ş. Erçetin (eds.), Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, pp. 29–34.

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 Bioarchaeology of the Near East.

Blog post

Taub B. (2015, November 11), Scientists Create Artificial System Capable Of Learning Human Language. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/scientists-create-artificial-system-capable-learning-human-language/

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 (2006), DOD’s High-Risk Areas: Challenges Remain to Achieving and Demonstrating Progress in Supply Chain Management, No. GAO-06-983T, 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

Rieger K. (2012), Phenomenological Exploration of the Characteristics of Successful Women Entrepreneurs, 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

Wagner J. (2016, September 29), Bruce’s Third Homer in Five Games Helps Protect Wild-Card Lead, New York Times, p. B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Midgley 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Aide & Grau 2004; Midgley 2011).

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

Two authors: (Aide & Grau 2004)
Three authors: (Winston, Molodowitch, & Hunter 2002)
6 or more authors: (Grupe et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Bioarchaeology of the Near East
ISSN (print)	1898-9403
ISSN (online)	1899-962X
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