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

Guan, J.-L., 2004. Cell biology. Integrins, rafts, Rac, and Rho. Science 303, 773–774.

A journal article with 2 authors

Yashin, V.V., Balazs, A.C., 2006. Pattern formation and shape changes in self-oscillating polymer gels. Science 314, 798–801.

A journal article with 3 authors

Elsässer, S.J., Allis, C.D., Lewis, P.W., 2011. Cancer. New epigenetic drivers of cancers. Science 331, 1145–1146.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gustafsson, O., Kruså, M., Zencak, Z., Sheesley, R.J., Granat, L., Engström, E., Praveen, P.S., Rao, P.S.P., Leck, C., Rodhe, H., 2009. Brown clouds over South Asia: biomass or fossil fuel combustion? Science 323, 495–498.

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

Murthy, D.N.P., 2006. Warranty Management and Product Manufacture, Springer Series in Reliability Engineering. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Wilkinson, P., Matthews, T.J., 2016. The Serious Games Ecosystem: Interdisciplinary and Intercontextual Praxis, in: Dörner, R., Göbel, S., Kickmeier-Rust, M., Masuch, M., Zweig, K. (Eds.), Entertainment Computing and Serious Games: International GI-Dagstuhl Seminar 15283, Dagstuhl Castle, Germany, July 5-10, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 63–91.

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

Davis, J., 2015. Should we be Afraid of Asteroids? [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/asteroid-day/ (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, 1975. Administration of the Science Education Project “Man: A Course of Study”(MACOS) (No. MWD-76-26). 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

Milillo, M.S., 2009. Analysis of emotional intelligence among management leaders and non-management leaders in software development (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Kelly, J., 2016. I Make G.M.O. Food. Label It. New York Times A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Guan, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Guan, 2004; Yashin and Balazs, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Yashin and Balazs, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Gustafsson et al., 2009)

About the journal

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