How to format your references using the Cambridge Archaeological Journal citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cambridge Archaeological Journal. 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

Rice, S.A., 2000. Optical control of reactions, Nature 403(6769), 496–97.

A journal article with 2 authors

Burghardt, T.P. & K. Ajtai, 2012. Cell biology. Heart brakes, Science (New York, N.Y.) 337(6099), 1182–83.

A journal article with 3 authors

Briggman, K.L., H.D.I. Abarbanel & W.B. Kristan Jr, 2005. Optical imaging of neuronal populations during decision-making, Science (New York, N.Y.) 307(5711), 896–901.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yen, L., J. Svendsen, J.-S. Lee, J.T. Gray, M. Magnier, T. Baba, R.J. D’Amato & R.C. Mulligan, 2004. Exogenous control of mammalian gene expression through modulation of RNA self-cleavage, Nature 431(7007), 471–76.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Marvin, S., 2010. Dictionary of Scientific Principles. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Roy, U., 2016. Impact of Climate Change on Small Scale Hydro-Turbine Selections (SpringerBriefs in Energy). Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Fierens, D., J. Ramon, M. Bruynooghe & H. Blockeel, 2008. Learning Directed Probabilistic Logical Models Using Ordering-Search, in Inductive Logic Programming: 17th International Conference, ILP 2007, Corvallis, OR, USA, June 19-21, 2007, Revised Selected Papers, eds. H. Blockeel, J. Ramon, J. Shavlik & P. Tadepalli (Lecture Notes in Computer Science). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 24–24.

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 Cambridge Archaeological Journal.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. New Study Sheds Light On The Origin Of Dolphins. IFLScience 8 May 2014 . https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-study-sheds-light-origin-dolphins/ [Accessed 30 Oct 2018].

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, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Willis, T.Y., 2012. Rare but There: An Intersectional Exploration of the Experiences and Outcomes of Black Women Who Studied Abroad through Community College Programs, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Murphy, M.J.O., 2014. Weekend Entertainments from the Archives of The New York Times, New York Times C30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rice 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Burghardt & Ajtai 2012; Rice 2000).

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

Two authors: (Burghardt & Ajtai 2012)
Three or more authors: (Yen et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cambridge Archaeological Journal
Abbreviation	Camb. Archaeol. J.
ISSN (print)	0959-7743
ISSN (online)	1474-0540
Scope	Archaeology Cultural Studies