How to format your references using the Fossil Record citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Fossil Record. 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

Hens, Z.: NANOMATERIALS. Economical routes to colloidal nanocrystals, Science, 348, 1211–1212, 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lobanov, A. P. and Zensus, J. A.: A cosmic double helix in the archetypical quasar 3C273, Science, 294, 128–131, 2001.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, E. D., Watson, J. D., and Collins, F. S.: Human Genome Project: Twenty-five years of big biology, Nature, 526, 29–31, 2015.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Pastushenko, I., Brisebarre, A., Sifrim, A., Fioramonti, M., Revenco, T., Boumahdi, S., Van Keymeulen, A., Brown, D., Moers, V., Lemaire, S., De Clercq, S., Minguijón, E., Balsat, C., Sokolow, Y., Dubois, C., De Cock, F., Scozzaro, S., Sopena, F., Lanas, A., D’Haene, N., Salmon, I., Marine, J.-C., Voet, T., Sotiropoulou, P. A., and Blanpain, C.: Identification of the tumour transition states occurring during EMT, Nature, 556, 463–468, 2018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Askoolum, A.: System Building with APL + Win, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2007.

An edited book

Prasad, B. (Ed.): Soft Computing Applications in Business, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, VIII, 293 p pp., 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

Kriz, I. and Pultr, A.: Integration I: Multivariable Riemann Integral and Basic Ideas Toward the Lebesgue Integral, in: Introduction to Mathematical Analysis, edited by: Pultr, A., Springer, Basel, 97–116, 2013.

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 Fossil Record.

Blog post

Amazing Vine of Aurora Borealis As Seen By ISS: https://www.iflscience.com/space/amazing-vine-aurora-borealis-seen-iss/, last access: 30 October 2018.

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: Telecommunications: Technological and Regulatory Factors Affecting Consumer Choice of Internet Providers, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Kopaygorodsky, E.: Mathematical Model of Ultra-Rapid PSA, Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2001.

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

Smallwood, C.: On Edge, New York Times, 21st August, M2226, 2015.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hens, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hens, 2015; Lobanov and Zensus, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Lobanov and Zensus, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Pastushenko et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Fossil Record
ISSN (print)	2193-0066
ISSN (online)	2193-0074
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