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

Prantzos, N. 2016. Cosmology: Rare isotopic insight into the Universe. Nature 529 (7584): 33–34.

A journal article with 2 authors

Michalakis, Y. and Roze, D. 2004. Evolution. Epistasis in RNA viruses. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306 (5701): 1492–1493.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, C., Potter, A.C. and Senthil, T. 2014. Classification of interacting electronic topological insulators in three dimensions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 343 (6171): 629–631.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pfleiderer, C., Reznik, D., Pintschovius, L., Löhneysen, H.V., Garst, M. and Rosch, A. 2004. Partial order in the non-Fermi-liquid phase of MnSi. Nature 427 (6971): 227–231.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paris, J.L. and Paris, J.L. 2008. CliffsNotes® Praxis II®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, .

An edited book

2010. Carbohydrates in Sustainable Development II. In Rauter, A.P., Vogel, P. and Queneau, Y. (eds.) Topics in Current Chemistry. Vol. 295. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, .

A chapter in an edited book

Papa, S., Petruzzella, V. and Scacco, S. 2007. 1.5 Electron Transport. Structure, Redox-Coupled Protonmotive Activity, and Pathological Disorders of Respiratory Chain Complexes. In: Lajtha, A., Gibson, G.E. and Dienel, G.A. (eds.), Handbook of Neurochemistry and Molecular Neurobiology: Brain Energetics. Integration of Molecular and Cellular Processes, 93–118. Springer US, Boston, MA.

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

Carpineti, A. 2017. Astronomers Are Hunting For Life Around A Nearby Star. IFLScience. Downloaded from https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-are-hunting-for-life-around-a-nearby-star/ 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. 2013. Transportation Infrastructure: Limited Improvement in Bridge Conditions over the Past Decade, but Financial Challenges Remain. 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

Crowley, K.M. 2019. Dynamics of Creativity: A Study of Early Drug Discovery Scientists’ Experience of Creativity.Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DCpp.

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

Wagner, J. 2017. Bruce Is Traded To IndiansFor Pitcher. New York Times: B11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Prantzos 2016).
This sentence cites two references (Michalakis and Roze 2004; Prantzos 2016).

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

Two authors: (Michalakis and Roze 2004)
Three or more authors: (Pfleiderer 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