How to format your references using the Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia (RPA). 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

KERR, R. A. (2000) – The Sun Again Intrudes on Earth’s Decadal Climate Change. Science (New York, N.Y.). 288:5473, p. 1986.

A journal article with 2 authors

ENSERINK, Martin; CHIN, Gilbert (2015) – The end of privacy. Introduction. Science (New York, N.Y.). 347:6221, pp. 490–491.

A journal article with 3 authors

DUPLESSY, J. C.; ROCHE, D. M.; KAGEYAMA, M. (2007) – The deep ocean during the last interglacial period. Science (New York, N.Y.). 316:5821, pp. 89–91.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

MARK, Darren F.; PARNELL, John; KELLEY, Simon P.; LEE, Martin; SHERLOCK, Sarah C.; CARR, Andrew (2005) – Dating of multistage fluid flow in sandstones. Science (New York, N.Y.). 309:5743, pp. 2048–2051.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

PALAVEEV, Philip (2012) – The Ensemble Practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

ZACHOS, Frank E.; HABEL, Jan Christian (Eds.) (2011) – Biodiversity Hotspots: Distribution and Protection of Conservation Priority Areas. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

SAVIN-BADEN, Maggi; WIMPENNY, Katherine (2014) – What are Arts-Related Methods? In WIMPENNY, Katherine, ed. – A Practical Guide to Arts-related Research Rotterdam: SensePublishers, pp. 45–62.

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 Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia.

Blog post

EVANS, Katy (2017, March 6) – WWF Lays Out 5 Key Goals To Be Achieved By World Wildlife Day 2019.

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 (1980) – The National Institute of Education Should Further Increase Minority and Female Participation in Its Activities. 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

VALADEZ, Ibeth (2010) – A psycho-education peer support group for homeless youth: A grant proposal.

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

VAN GELDER, Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by Lawrence (2004, November 4) – Arts, Briefly; Saving Shostakovich. New York Times. p. E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kerr 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kerr 2000, Enserink & Chin 2015).

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

Two authors: (Enserink & Chin 2015)
Three or more authors: (Mark et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Revista Portuguesa de Arqueologia
ISSN (print)	0874-2782
Scope