How to format your references using the Journal of Micropalaeontology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Micropalaeontology. 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

Schrag, D. P.: Preparing to capture carbon, Science, 315, 812–813, 2007.

A journal article with 2 authors

Boehr, D. D. and Wright, P. E.: Biochemistry. How do proteins interact?, Science, 320, 1429–1430, 2008.

A journal article with 3 authors

Oppo, D. W., McManus, J. F., and Cullen, J. L.: Palaeo-oceanography: Deepwater variability in the Holocene epoch, Nature, 422, 277, 2003.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Close, L. M., Lenzen, R., Guirado, J. C., Nielsen, E. L., Mamajek, E. E., Brandner, W., Hartung, M., Lidman, C., and Biller, B.: A dynamical calibration of the mass-luminosity relation at very low stellar masses and young ages, Nature, 433, 286–289, 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maidl, B., Thewes, M., and Maidl, U.: Handbook of Tunnel Engineering II, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2014.

An edited book

White, R. (Ed.): Climate Change from a Criminological Perspective, Springer, New York, NY, VIII, 232 p pp., 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Pucciarelli, M. G., Bierne, H., and Portillo, F. G.: The Cell Wall of Listeria monocytogenes and its Role in Pathogenicity, in: Listeria monocytogenes: Pathogenesis and Host Response, edited by: Goldfine, H. and Shen, H., Springer US, Boston, MA, 81–110, 2007.

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 Journal of Micropalaeontology.

Blog post

Researchers Closer To Using Light Instead of Wires In Computers:

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: Federal Research: Evaluation of Small Business Innovation Research Can Be Strengthened, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Edson, C.: A Mixed-Methods Investigation on Contributing Factors to the Political Efficacy of Eighth Grade Students in a Suburban School District in Missouri, Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO, 2017.

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

Chira, S.: Le Pen Shifts A Strategy: Feminizing The Far Right, New York Times, 4th May, A12, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schrag, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Boehr and Wright, 2008; Schrag, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Boehr and Wright, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Close et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Micropalaeontology
Abbreviation	J. Micropalaeontol.
ISSN (print)	0262-821X
ISSN (online)	2041-4978
Scope	Palaeontology