How to format your references using the Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology (JCAA). 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

Nicholls, H. 2011 The art of conservation. Nature 472(7343): 287–289.

A journal article with 2 authors

Feng, Y and Krumholz, MR. 2014 Early turbulent mixing as the origin of chemical homogeneity in open star clusters. Nature 513(7519): 523–525.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bacles, CFE, Lowe, AJ and Ennos, RA. 2006 Effective seed dispersal across a fragmented landscape. Science (New York, N.Y.) 311(5761): 628.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Guarani, V, Deflorian, G, Franco, CA, Krüger, M, Phng, L-K, Bentley, K, Toussaint, L, Dequiedt, F, Mostoslavsky, R, Schmidt, MHH, Zimmermann, B, Brandes, RP, Mione, M, Westphal, CH, Braun, T, Zeiher, AM, Gerhardt, H, Dimmeler, S and Potente, M. 2011 Acetylation-dependent regulation of endothelial Notch signalling by the SIRT1 deacetylase. Nature 473(7346): 234–238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu, H and Li, G. 2006. OFDM-Based Broadband Wireless Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Craciun, A and Schaffer, S (eds.). 2016. The Material Cultures of Enlightenment Arts and Sciences. Palgrave Studies in the Enlightenment, Romanticism and the Cultures of Print. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Najafi, M, Afsham, N, Abolmaesumi, P and Rohling, R. 2012 A Closed-Form Differential Formulation for Ultrasound Spatial Calibration. In:. Abolmaesumi, P, Joskowicz, L, Navab, N, and Jannin, P (eds.). Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions: Third International Conference, IPCAI 2012, Pisa, Italy, June 27, 2012. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. pp. 44–53.

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 Computer Applications in Archaeology.

Blog post

Andrew, D. 2016. 7 Terrible Health Tips From Gwyneth Paltrow. IFLScience, 1 October 2016. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/7-terrible-health-tips-from-gwyneth-paltrow/ [Last accessed 30 October 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. 2002 District of Columbia: Planned Funding and Schedule for D.C. Public Schools’ Modernization Program Are Unrealistic.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Best, ML. 2013. Assistant Principals and Reform: A Socialization Paradox? Doctoral dissertation. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Atlas, J. 2017 Headed for the Graveyard of Books.. New York Times 10 February, BR21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Nicholls 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Feng and Krumholz 2014; Nicholls 2011).

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

Two authors: (Feng and Krumholz 2014)
Three authors: (Bacles, Lowe and Ennos 2006)
4 or more authors: (Guarani et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Computer Applications in Archaeology
Abbreviation	J. Comput. Appl. Archaeol.
ISSN (online)	2514-8362
Scope