How to format your references using the World Archaeology citation style

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

FitzGerald, Garret A. 2014. “Circadian Rhythms. Temporal Targets of Drug Action.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 346 (6212): 921–922.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wagner, William R., and Bartley P. Griffith. 2010. “Reconstructing the Lung.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 (5991): 520–522.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang, Qiao, Nevine A. Shalaby, and Michael Buszczak. 2014. “Changes in rRNA Transcription Influence Proliferation and Cell Fate within a Stem Cell Lineage.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 343 (6168): 298–301.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Bernard, Aurélien, Christophe Lécuyer, Peggy Vincent, Romain Amiot, Nathalie Bardet, Eric Buffetaut, Gilles Cuny, et al. 2010. “Regulation of Body Temperature by Some Mesozoic Marine Reptiles.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 328 (5984): 1379–1382.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins, Bruce R. 2009. Fundraising Law Made Easy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Schirmer, Eric C., and Jose I. de las Heras, eds. 2014. Cancer Biology and the Nuclear Envelope: Recent Advances May Elucidate Past Paradoxes. Vol. 773. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Van Assche, Kristof, and Petruţa Teampău. 2015. “Cosmopolitanism and Networks: Odessa, Trieste, Tbilisi.” In Local Cosmopolitanism: Imagining and (Re-)Making Privileged Places, edited by Petruța Teampău, 25–45. SpringerBriefs in Geography. 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 World Archaeology.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. “Seagulls Eat the Eyeballs of Baby Seals.” IFLScience, IFLScience, August 24. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/seagulls-eat-eye-balls-baby-seals/.

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. 1977. Comments on Loan Guarantee Provisions of H.R. 13350, the 1977 Authorization Bill for the Energy Research and Development Administration. B-178726. 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

Khaleghi, Farrah K. 2017. “Evaluating Satisfaction of Participants within the Outreach and Engagement Program of MECCA.” Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University.

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

Burghardt, Linda F. 2007. “For Police Recruits, Training in Tolerance.” New York Times, July 1, 2007.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (FitzGerald 2014).
This sentence cites two references (FitzGerald 2014; Wagner and Griffith 2010).

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

Two authors: (Wagner and Griffith 2010)
Three authors: (Zhang, Shalaby, and Buszczak 2014)
4 or more authors: (Bernard et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	World Archaeology
Abbreviation	World Archaeol.
ISSN (print)	0043-8243
ISSN (online)	1470-1375
Scope	Archaeology General Earth and Planetary Sciences