How to format your references using the Cretaceous Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cretaceous Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Visser, A.W., 2007. Ocean science. Biomixing of the oceans? Science 316, 838–839.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jalil, M.B.A., Tan, S.G., 2014. Robustness of topological Hall effect of nontrivial spin textures. Sci. Rep. 4, 5123.

A journal article with 3 authors

Convertito, V., Catalli, F., Emolo, A., 2013. Combining stress transfer and source directivity: the case of the 2012 Emilia seismic sequence. Sci. Rep. 3, 3114.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Shaw, R.J., Lamia, K.A., Vasquez, D., Koo, S.-H., Bardeesy, N., Depinho, R.A., Montminy, M., Cantley, L.C., 2005. The kinase LKB1 mediates glucose homeostasis in liver and therapeutic effects of metformin. Science 310, 1642–1646.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rossi, R.J., 2006. Theorems, Corollaries, Lemmas, and Methods of Proof. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kyung, C.-M. (Ed.), 2015. Smart Sensors for Health and Environment Monitoring, KAIST Research Series. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Mehling, H., Cabeza, L.F., 2008. Design of latent heat storages, in: Cabeza, L.F. (Ed.), Heat and Cold Storage with PCM: An up to Date Introduction into Basics and Applications, Heat and Mass Transfer. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 137–179.

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 Cretaceous Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Universe Reached Peak Heat 11 Billion Years Ago [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/universe-reached-peak-heat-11-billion-years-ago/ (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, 1973. Alleged Violations of the Kentucky State Plan for Vocational Education and Federal Regulations on Vocational Education by the Kentucky Department of Education (No. B-164031(1)). 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

Sadr, E.I., 2013. To whisper in the king’s ear: Economists in Pahlavi and Islamic Iran (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

Koblin, J., 2016. HBO Renews 3 Series. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Visser, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Jalil and Tan, 2014; Visser, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Jalil and Tan, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Shaw et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cretaceous Research
Abbreviation	Cretac. Res.
ISSN (print)	0195-6671
Scope	Palaeontology