How to format your references using the Journal of Archaeological Research citation style

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

Smaglik, P. (2009). Salaries in the balance. Nature 457: 750–751.

A journal article with 2 authors

McPhaden, M. J. and Zhang, D. (2002). Slowdown of the meridional overturning circulation in the upper Pacific Ocean. Nature 415: 603–608.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sta Ana, J. L., Frankel, M. S. and Berger, K. M. (2009). Biosecurity. Educating scientists about dual use. Science 326: 1193.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sierra, E., Fernández, A., de los Monteros, A. E., Arbelo, M., de Quirós, Y. B. and Herráez, P. (2013). Muscular senescence in cetaceans: adaptation towards a slow muscle fibre phenotype. Sci. Rep. 3: 1795.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Luther, G. W., III (2016). Inorganic Chemistry for Geochemistry and Environmental Sciences, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Kirylo, J. D. ed. (2013). A Critical Pedagogy of Resistance: 34 Pedagogues We Need to Know, SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Vadim, G., Ying, G., Geoff, J. and Geoff, P. (2006). Physically Realistic Self-assembly Simulation System. In G. Crina and R. Vitorino (eds.), Stigmergic Optimization, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp.117–130.

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 Journal of Archaeological Research.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2017). Scientists To Trial Personalized Vaccine Against One Type Of Cancer (consulted October 2018: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-to-trial-personalized-vaccine-against-one-type-of-cancer/).

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 (2009). Information Technology: DOD Needs to Strengthen Management of Its Statutorily Mandated Software and System Process Improvement Efforts, 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

Tom, D. M. (2012). Impact on achievement with ST math after school instruction, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Feeney, K. (2008). Bakery That Sells and Gives. New York Times NJ12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2009).
This sentence cites two references (McPhaden and Zhang 2002; Smaglik 2009).

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

Two authors: (McPhaden and Zhang 2002)
Three or more authors: (Sierra et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Archaeological Research
Abbreviation	J. Archaeol. Res.
ISSN (print)	1059-0161
ISSN (online)	1573-7756
Scope	General Arts and Humanities Archaeology