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

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

Hardie DG (2011) Cell biology. Why starving cells eat themselves. Science 331:410–411

A journal article with 2 authors

Ringe D, Petsko GA (2008) Biochemistry. How enzymes work. Science 320:1428–1429

A journal article with 3 authors

Cicerone RJ, Molina MJ, Blake DR (2012) Retrospective. F. Sherwood Rowland (1927-2012). Science 336:170

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kang D, Dai J, Sun H, et al (2013) Quantum simulation of thermally-driven phase transition and oxygen K-edge x-ray absorption of high-pressure ice. Sci Rep 3:3272

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cofnas A (2011) Trading Binary Options. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Del Brutto OH (2014) Cysticercosis of the Human Nervous System. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Epstein B (2014) How Many Kinds of Glue Hold the Social World Together? In: Gallotti M, Michael J (eds) Perspectives on Social Ontology and Social Cognition. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 41–55

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 Paleolimnology.

Blog post

Davis J (2015) Scientists Reverse Aging In Human Cell Line. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-reverse-aging-human-cells-line/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1994) Advance Sheets: Volume 73, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States. 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

Lazareva O (2010) Constructed wetland/filter basin system as a prospective pre-treatment option for aquifer storage and recovery and a potential remedy for elevated arsenic. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida

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

Vecsey G (2010) Backman Is Poised On Top Step of the Dugout. New York Times B12

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hardie 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Ringe and Petsko 2008; Hardie 2011).

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

Two authors: (Ringe and Petsko 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Paleolimnology
Abbreviation	J. Paleolimnol.
ISSN (print)	0921-2728
ISSN (online)	1573-0417
Scope	Aquatic Science Earth-Surface Processes