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

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

Kemp, M., 2002. Science in culture. Nature 420, 364.

A journal article with 2 authors

Devoret, M.H., Schoelkopf, R.J., 2013. Superconducting circuits for quantum information: an outlook. Science 339, 1169–1174.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ma, J., Wollmann, R., Lindquist, S., 2002. Neurotoxicity and neurodegeneration when PrP accumulates in the cytosol. Science 298, 1781–1785.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, H., Westin, L., Nong, Y., Birnbaum, S., Bendor, J., Brismar, H., Nestler, E., Aperia, A., Flajolet, M., Greengard, P., 2009. Norbin is an endogenous regulator of metabotropic glutamate receptor 5 signaling. Science 326, 1554–1557.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bottomley, G.E., 2011. Channel Equalization for Wireless Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Grannell, C., 2012. The Essential Guide to HTML5 and CSS3 Web Design. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Garshol, L.M., 2006. TMRAP – Topic Maps Remote Access Protocol, in: Maicher, L., Park, J. (Eds.), Charting the Topic Maps Research and Applications Landscape: First International Workshop on Topic Map Research and Applications, TMRA 2005, Leipzig, Germany, October 6-7, 2005, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 53–68.

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 Palaeogeography.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. US States Ignore White House And Form A “Climate Alliance” To Continue Decarbonization [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/us-states-ignore-white-house-and-form-a-climate-alliance-to-continue-decarbonization-/ (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, 1987. Railroad Regulation: Competitive Access and Its Effects on Selected Railroads and Shippers (No. RCED-87-109). 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

Hertzog, L., 2013. Development and implementation of a prenatal postpartum depression education program for nurse practitioner students at California State University Long Beach (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

Barron, J., 2016. A Piece of Film History, Hidden in a Home Movie. New York Times A19.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kemp, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Devoret and Schoelkopf, 2013; Kemp, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Devoret and Schoelkopf, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Palaeogeography
ISSN (print)	2095-3836
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