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

de Kroon, H., 2007. Ecology. How do roots interact? Science 318, 1562–1563.

A journal article with 2 authors

Magnus, D., Cho, M.K., 2005. Ethics. Issues in oocyte donation for stem cell research. Science 308, 1747–1748.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sasai, M., Linehan, M.M., Iwasaki, A., 2010. Bifurcation of Toll-like receptor 9 signaling by adaptor protein 3. Science 329, 1530–1534.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Seki, K., Elphic, R.C., Hirahara, M., Terasawa, T., Mukai, T., 2001. On atmospheric loss of oxygen ions from earth through magnetospheric processes. Science 291, 1939–1941.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moreau, E., Adali, T., 2013. Blind Identification and Separation of Complex-Valued Signals. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Cohen, H., O’Brien, P. (Eds.), 2012. Disorders of Thrombosis and Hemostasis in Pregnancy: A Guide to Management. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Alajlan, M., Koubâa, A., 2016. Writing Global Path Planners Plugins in ROS: A Tutorial, in: Koubaa, A. (Ed.), Robot Operating System (ROS): The Complete Reference (Volume 1), Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 73–97.

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

Hamilton, K., 2016. Why This Spot On The Jersey Coast Was Like A Magnet For Neanderthals [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/why-this-spot-on-the-jersey-coast-was-like-a-magnet-for-neanderthals/ (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, 2016. Commercial Space Launch Insurance: Views Differ on Need for Change to Insurance Approach but Clarification Is Needed (No. GAO-17-88). 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

Sawant, K.G., 2015. A Chemo-Physical Model for Predicting Post Fracking Pressure Buildup in Pierre Shale (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Hubbard, B., 2017. As Syrian War Drags On, Assad’s Grip Tightens. New York Times A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (de Kroon, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (de Kroon, 2007; Magnus and Cho, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Magnus and Cho, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Seki et al., 2001)

About the journal

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