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SAA Examples

The Society for American Archaeology uses the following style guide for citing sources.

The following examples of the most common types of citations are taken directly from the online SAA Style Guide. See pages 31-40 for a complete list of examples and further explanation.

Alphabetize the References Cited section by the last names of authors, and use complete first names and middle initials for authors and editors as they appear on the title page of the work. Arrange the parts of each reference in the general order: author(s), date, title, publisher, location of publisher.

Book, Single Author 3.10.1	Elster, Jon 1989 Nuts and Bolts for the Social Sciences. Cambridge University Press, New York. Morales Padrón, Fransisco 1971 Historia del descubrimiento y conquista de América. 2nd ed. Editora Nacional, Madrid.
Book, Multiple Authors 3.10.2	Hampton, David R., Charles E. Summer, and Ross A. Weber 1978 Organizational Behavior and the Practice of Management. 3rd ed. Scott, Foresman, Glenview, Illinois.
Edited Book 3.10.3	Dibble, Charles E. (editor) 1980 [sixteenth century] Codice Xolotl. Universidad Autónoma de México, México, D.F. McHugh, William P. (editor) 1977 The Teaching of Archaeology. Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale.
Translated Book 3.10.4	Bonavia, Duccio 1985 Mural Painting in Ancient Peru. Translated by P. J. Lyon. Indiana University Press, Bloomington.
Journal Article 3.10.9	Ashmore, Wendy 1991 Site-Planning Principles and Concepts of Directionality among the Ancient Maya. Latin American Antiquity 2:199–226. Seifert, Donna J. 1991 Within Sight of the White House: The Archaeology of Working Women. Historical Archaeology 25(4):82–108. Note: If each issue of a journal begins with page 1, the issue number must be included, in parentheses, following the volume number.
Article in an Edited Book or Monograph 3.10.13	Manzanilla, Linda 1999 The Emergence of Complex Urban Societies in Central Mexico: The case of Teotihuacan. In Archaeology in Latin America, edited by Gustavo G. Politis and Benjamin Alberti, pp. 93–129. Routledge, London.
Dissertation or Thesis 3.10.19	Fritz, Gayle J. 1986 Prehistoric Ozark Agriculture: The University of Arkansas Rockshelter Collections. Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Department of Anthropology, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill.
Web Pages and Electronic Documents 3.10.22	Glascock, Michael D. 2001 Archaeometry Laboratory at MURR. Electronic document, http://missouri.edu/~glascock/archlab.html, accessed April 12, 2002. Northwest Research Obsidian Studies Laboratory 2001 XRF Information. Electronic document, http://www.obsidianlab.com, accessed April 12, 2002.

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