How to format your references using the Comptes rendus - Palevol citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comptes rendus - Palevol. 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

Wiersma, D., 2000. The smallest random laser. Nature 406, 132–133.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tripati, A., Elderfield, H., 2005. Deep-sea temperature and circulation changes at the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum. Science 308, 1894–1898.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pozzi, F., Di Matteo, T., Aste, T., 2013. Spread of risk across financial markets: better to invest in the peripheries. Sci. Rep. 3, 1665.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Verhaar, A.P., Hoekstra, E., Tjon, A.S.W., Utomo, W.K., Deuring, J.J., Bakker, E.R.M., Muncan, V., Peppelenbosch, M.P., 2014. Dichotomal effect of space flight-associated microgravity on stress-activated protein kinases in innate immunity. Sci. Rep. 4, 5468.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yavaş, M., 2011. Applied English Phonology. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Blömeke, S., Hsieh, F.-J., Kaiser, G., Schmidt, W.H. (Eds.), 2014. International Perspectives on Teacher Knowledge, Beliefs and Opportunities to Learn: TEDS-M Results, Advances in Mathematics Education. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Rubio, E., Castillo, O., 2015. A New Proposal for a Granular Fuzzy C-Means Algorithm, in: Melin, P., Castillo, O., Kacprzyk, J. (Eds.), Design of Intelligent Systems Based on Fuzzy Logic, Neural Networks and Nature-Inspired Optimization, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 47–57.

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 Comptes rendus - Palevol.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2014. New Image Reveals Violent Collision of Galaxies [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-image-reveals-violent-collision-galaxies/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2003. Aviation Safety: Information on FAA’s Data on Operational Errors At Air Traffic Control Towers (No. GAO-03-1175R). 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

Cook, A.E., 2010. Gas hydrate-filled fracture reservoirs on continental margins (Doctoral dissertation). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

de la MERCED, M.J., 2017. Walmart to Acquire Bonobos for $310 Million. New York Times B4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wiersma, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Tripati and Elderfield, 2005; Wiersma, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Tripati and Elderfield, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Verhaar et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Comptes rendus - Palevol
Abbreviation	C. R. Palevol
ISSN (print)	1631-0683
Scope	Palaeontology