How to format your references using the Acta Palaeontologica Polonica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Ahmed, F. 2010. Health: Edible advice. Nature 468 (7327): S10-2.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hågvar, S. and Ohlson, M. 2013. Ancient carbon from a melting glacier gives high ¹⁴C age in living pioneer invertebrates. Scientific reports 3: 2820.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hulme, M., O’Neill, S.J. and Dessai, S. 2011. Climate change. Is weather event attribution necessary for adaptation funding? Science (New York, N.Y.) 334 (6057): 764–765.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mastrolorenzo, G., Petrone, P.P., Pagano, M., Incoronato, A., Baxter, P.J., Canzanella, A. and Fattore, L. 2001. Herculaneum victims of Vesuvius in ad 79. Nature 410 (6830): 769–770.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kulkarni, S. and Harman, G. 2011. An Elementary Introduction to Statistical Learning Theory: Kulkarni/Statistical Learning Theory. In Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, .

An edited book

2014. Intelligent Information and Database Systems: 6th Asian Conference, ACIIDS 2014, Bangkok, Thailand, April 7-9, 2014, Proceedings, Part I. In Nguyen, N.T., Attachoo, B., Trawiński, B. and Somboonviwat, K. (eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 8397. Springer International Publishing, Cham, .

A chapter in an edited book

Anton, T., Lackes, R. and Siepermann, M. 2016. Integration of Risk Aspects into Business Process Modeling. In: Felderer, M., Piazolo, F., Ortner, W., Brehm, L. and Hof, H.-J. (eds.), Innovations in Enterprise Information Systems Management and Engineering: 4th International Conference, ERP Future 2015 - Research, Munich, Germany, November 16-17, 2015, Revised Papers, 46–61. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Mega-Droughts Will Severely Threaten Western U.S. By 2100. IFLScience. Downloaded from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mega-droughts-will-severely-threaten-western-us-2100/ on 30 October 2018. IFLScience.

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. 1981. The Atlanta Region: Welcome to the Now South!. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cady, S.C. 2013. Successful student goal completion: A community college case study.Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MNpp.

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

Rutenberg, J. 2016. News Outlets Wonder Where They Stumbled. New York Times: A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ahmed 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Ahmed 2010; Hågvar and Ohlson 2013).

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

Two authors: (Hågvar and Ohlson 2013)
Three or more authors: (Mastrolorenzo et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Abbreviation	Acta Palaeontol. Pol.
ISSN (print)	0567-7920
ISSN (online)	1732-2421
Scope	Palaeontology