How to format your references using the Ameghiniana citation style

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

Ashley-Ross, M.A. 2015. BIOMECHANICS. When it’s hip to be square. Science (New York, N.Y.) 349: 30–31.

A journal article with 2 authors

Richter, J.D. and Sonenberg, N. 2005. Regulation of cap-dependent translation by eIF4E inhibitory proteins. Nature 433: 477–480.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ruff, C.C., Ugazio, G. and Fehr, E. 2013. Changing social norm compliance with noninvasive brain stimulation. Science (New York, N.Y.) 342: 482–484.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schilling, M.M., Oeser, J.K., Boustead, J.N., Flemming, B.P. and O’Brien, R.M. 2006. Gluconeogenesis: re-evaluating the FOXO1-PGC-1alpha connection. Nature 443: E10-1.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rochange, C., Uhrig, S. and Sainrat, P. 2013. Time-Predictable Architectures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, .

An edited book

2008. Advances in Information Retrieval: 30th European Conference on IR Research, ECIR 2008, Glasgow, UK, March 30-April 3, 2008. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, .

A chapter in an edited book

Behrndt, J., Malamud, M.M. and Neidhardt, H. 2010. Finite Rank Perturbations, Scattering Matrices and Inverse Problems. In: Behrndt, J., K.-H. Förster and C. Trunk (Eds.) , Recent Advances in Operator Theory in Hilbert and Krein Spaces, Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 61–85.

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 Ameghiniana.

Blog post

Fang, J. 2014. New Frog Species Discovered in New York City. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-frog-species-was-discovered-new-york-city/. Accessed October 30, 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 1998. Department of the Interior: Year 2000 Computing Crisis Presents Risk of Disruption to Key Operations. 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

Glazer, K. 2015. [Imagining a constructionist game-based pedagogical model: Using tabletop role-playing game creation to enhance literature education in high school English classes. PhD. Thesis, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Kishkovsky, S. 2005. Moscow Theater Hit Again by Fire. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Ashley-Ross, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Richter and Sonenberg, 2005; Ashley-Ross, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Richter and Sonenberg, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Schilling et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ameghiniana
Abbreviation	Ameghiniana
ISSN (print)	0002-7014
ISSN (online)	1851-8044
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Palaeontology