How to format your references using the Gondwana Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Gondwana 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

Netz, R., 2002. Portraits of science. Proof, amazement, and the unexpected. Science 298, 967–968.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lechler, T., Fuchs, E., 2005. Asymmetric cell divisions promote stratification and differentiation of mammalian skin. Nature 437, 275–280.

A journal article with 3 authors

Plata, G., Henry, C.S., Vitkup, D., 2015. Long-term phenotypic evolution of bacteria. Nature 517, 369–372.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Matsubara, H., Yoshimoto, S., Saito, H., Jianglin, Y., Tanaka, Y., Noda, S., 2008. GaN photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser at blue-violet wavelengths. Science 319, 445–447.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burkinshaw, S.M., 2016. Physico-chemical Aspects of Textile Coloration. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Akama, S. (Ed.), 2016. Towards Paraconsistent Engineering, Intelligent Systems Reference Library. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Rothe, A., 2005. Tree Species Management and Nitrate Contamination of Groundwater: A Central European Perspective, in: Binkley, D., Menyailo, O. (Eds.), Tree Species Effects on Soils: Implications for Global Change: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Trees and Soil Interactions, Implications to Global Climate Change August 2004 Krasnoyarsk, Russia, NATO Science Series IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 71–83.

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 Gondwana Research.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. New Species Of Monkey Discovered In The Remote Peruvian Rainforest [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1996. Energy Research: Opportunities Exist to Recover Federal Investment in Technology Development Projects (No. RCED-96-141). 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

Schmidt, M.P., 2013. Being here (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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, C., 2007. Old Graveyards Suffering The Ravages of Vandalism. New York Times WE15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Netz, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Lechler and Fuchs, 2005; Netz, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Lechler and Fuchs, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Matsubara et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Gondwana Research
Abbreviation	Gondwana Res.
ISSN (print)	1342-937X
Scope	Geology