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

May, M. 2013. Regenerative medicine: Rebuilding the backbone. Nature 503 (7475): S7-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shimamoto, T. and Togo, T. 2012. Geophysics. Earthquakes in the lab. Science (New York, N.Y.) 338 (6103): 54–55.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blaser, E., Pylyshyn, Z.W. and Holcombe, A.O. 2000. Tracking an object through feature space. Nature 408 (6809): 196–199.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Crooker, S.A., Rickel, D.G., Balatsky, A.V. and Smith, D.L. 2004. Spectroscopy of spontaneous spin noise as a probe of spin dynamics and magnetic resonance. Nature 431 (7004): 49–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson, T.J. 2015. The Value of Debt in Retirement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, .

An edited book

2006. Knowledge Science, Engineering and Management: First International Conference, KSEM 2006, Guilin, China, August 5-8, 2006. Proceedings. In Lang, J., Lin, F. and Wang, J. (eds.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol. 4092. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, .

A chapter in an edited book

He, Y. 2013. Genome-Based Computational Vaccine Discovery by Reverse Vaccinology. In: Flower, D.R. and Perrie, Y. (eds.), Immunomic Discovery of Adjuvants and Candidate Subunit Vaccines, 91–104. Springer, New York, NY.

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. 2014. Urban Algae Farm Gobbles Up Highway Air Pollution. IFLScience. Downloaded from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/urban-algae-farm-gobbles-highway-air-pollution/ 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. 1997. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Risk of Serious Disruption to Essential Government Functions Calls for Agency Action Now. 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

Compagna-Doll, V.A. 2017. Unearthing the Third: The Crone in Depth Psychotherapy.Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, CApp.

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

Baker, P. and Shear, M.D. 2017. Shifting Tone, President Saves Dark Words for a Faith’s Fringe. 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 (May 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Shimamoto and Togo 2012; May 2013).

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

Two authors: (Shimamoto and Togo 2012)
Three or more authors: (Crooker et al. 2004)

About the journal

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