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

Smyty, R. 2000. Beauty is ova-rated. Nature 404: 31.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miller, L. and Douglas, B.C. 2004. Mass and volume contributions to twentieth-century global sea level rise. Nature 428: 406–409.

A journal article with 3 authors

Beskow, L.M., Dame, L. and Costello, E.J. 2008. Research ethics. Certificates of confidentiality and compelled disclosure of data. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322: 1054–1055.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ginhoux, F., Greter, M., Leboeuf, M., Nandi, S., See, P., Gokhan, S., Mehler, M.F., Conway, S.J., Ng, L.G., Stanley, E.R., Samokhvalov, I.M. and Merad, M. 2010. Fate mapping analysis reveals that adult microglia derive from primitive macrophages. Science (New York, N.Y.) 330: 841–845.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Palmquist, S.R. 2015. Comprehensive Commentary on Kant’s Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, .

An edited book

2005. Nanotechnology and Nanoelectronics: Materials, Devices, Measurement Techniques. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, .

A chapter in an edited book

Valeta, T. 2010. Historical Aspects of Epilepsy: Overview. In: Panayiotopoulos, C.P. (Ed.) , Atlas of Epilepsies, Springer, London, pp. 23–25.

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

Hale, T. 2015. Japan Will Open A Fully Robotic Lettuce Farm By 2017. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/technology/japan-will-open-fully-robotic-lettuce-farm-2017/. 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 1999. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: USDA Needs to Accelerate Time Frames for Completing Contingency Planning. 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

Hey, S.E. 2015. [Olivier Messiaen’s ‘Quartet for the End of Time’: A look at ‘The Abyss of the Birds’ and socio-political issues, religion and performance practice in reference to the bible and the holocaust. PhD. Thesis, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Vecsey, G. 2010. At Home, In Any House. New York Times B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smyty, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Smyty, 2000; Miller and Douglas, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Miller and Douglas, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Ginhoux et al., 2010)

About the journal

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