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

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

Rabiner, L., 2003. Computer science. The power of speech. Science 301, 1494–1495.

A journal article with 2 authors

Clarke, A., Kapustin, V., 2010. Hemispheric aerosol vertical profiles: anthropogenic impacts on optical depth and cloud nuclei. Science 329, 1488–1492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu, X., Zhou, Z., Prum, R.O., 2001. Branched integumental structures in Sinornithosaurus and the origin of feathers. Nature 410, 200–204.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kim, U.-K., Jorgenson, E., Coon, H., Leppert, M., Risch, N., Drayna, D., 2003. Positional cloning of the human quantitative trait locus underlying taste sensitivity to phenylthiocarbamide. Science 299, 1221–1225.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goossens, F., 2015. How to Implement Market Models Using VBA. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ghatak, K.P., 2009. Photoemission from Optoelectronic Materials and their Nanostructures, Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Al-Hazzouri, A.Z., Odden, M., Mayeda, E.R., Aiello, A.E., Neuhaus, J.M., Haan, M.N., 2012. Lifetime Socioeconomic Position and Functional Decline in Older Mexican Americans: Results from the Sacramento Area Latino Study on Aging, in: Angel, J.L., Torres-Gil, F., Markides, K. (Eds.), Aging, Health, and Longevity in the Mexican-Origin Population. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 35–49.

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 Science.

Blog post

Andrews, R., 2017. Humanity’s Actions Have Given Rise To 208 New Mineral Types [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/humanitys-actions-given-rise-208-new-mineral-types/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2014. Advanced Imaging Technology: TSA Needs Additional Information before Procuring Next-Generation Systems (No. GAO-14-357). 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

Angervil, G., 2017. Administrative Discretion in Public Policy Implementation: The Case of No Child Left Behind (NCLB) (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL.

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

Kolomatsky, M., 2017. Best Neighborhoods for Night Workers. New York Times RE2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rabiner, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Clarke and Kapustin, 2010; Rabiner, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Clarke and Kapustin, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Archaeological Science
Abbreviation	J. Archaeol. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0305-4403
Scope	History Archaeology