How to format your references using the Journal of World Prehistory citation style

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

Whitaker, B. J. (2011). Chemistry. Shining light on diabolic points. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6053), 187–188.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nussenzweig, M. C., & Mellman, I. (2011). Ralph Steinman (1943-2011). Nature, 478(7370), 460.

A journal article with 3 authors

Falenty, A., Hansen, T. C., & Kuhs, W. F. (2014). Formation and properties of ice XVI obtained by emptying a type sII clathrate hydrate. Nature, 516(7530), 231–233.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Charnoz, S., Brahic, A., Thomas, P. C., & Porco, C. C. (2007). The equatorial ridges of Pan and Atlas: terminal accretionary ornaments? Science (New York, N.Y.), 318(5856), 1622–1624.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boyd, R. K., Basic, C., & Bethem, R. A. (2008). Trace Quantitative Analysis by Mass Spectrometry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Kardamakis, D., Vassiliou, V., & Chow, E. (Eds.). (2009). Bone Metastases: A translational and clinical approach (1st ed., Vol. 12). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Hoffa, P., Pawlewski, P., & Nielsen, I. (2014). Multimodal Processes Approach to Supply Chain Modeling. In S. Omatu, H. Bersini, J. M. Corchado, S. Rodríguez, P. Pawlewski, & E. Bucciarelli (Eds.), Distributed Computing and Artificial Intelligence, 11th International Conference (pp. 29–37). Cham: Springer International Publishing.

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 World Prehistory.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014, March 28). Medics Given The Go Ahead For A Trial Of Suspended Animation. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/medics-given-go-ahead-trial-suspended-animation/. 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. (2017). Information Technology: Opportunities for Improving Acquisitions and Operations (No. GAO-17-251SP). 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

Beverley, D. (2014). Golf as a tool for executive leadership development (Doctoral dissertation). Pepperdine University, Malibu, 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

Walsh, M. W. (2015, April 12). Risky Moves in the Game of Life Insurance. New York Times, p. BU1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Whitaker 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Nussenzweig and Mellman 2011; Whitaker 2011).

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

Two authors: (Nussenzweig and Mellman 2011)
Three or more authors: (Charnoz et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of World Prehistory
Abbreviation	J. World Prehist.
ISSN (print)	0892-7537
ISSN (online)	1573-7802
Scope	General Arts and Humanities Archaeology