How to format your references using the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology citation style

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

Kroes, G.-J. 2008. Frontiers in surface scattering simulations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 321, 794–797.

A journal article with 2 authors

Channell, R. & Lomolino, M. V. 2000. Dynamic biogeography and conservation of endangered species. Nature, 403, 84–86.

A journal article with 3 authors

Flachsova, M., Sindelka, R. & Kubista, M. 2013. Single blastomere expression profiling of Xenopus laevis embryos of 8 to 32-cells reveals developmental asymmetry. Scientific reports, 3, 2278.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Grützner, F., Rens, W., Tsend-Ayush, E., El-Mogharbel, N., O’Brien, P. C. M., Jones, R. C., Ferguson-Smith, M. A. & Marshall Graves, J. A. 2004. In the platypus a meiotic chain of ten sex chromosomes shares genes with the bird Z and mammal X chromosomes. Nature, 432, 913–917.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bauldry, W. C. 2009. Introduction to Real Analysis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ pp.

An edited book

Laming, M. M. (ed.). 2012. The New Inheritors: Transforming Young People’s Expectations of University. SensePublishers, Rotterdam, VI, 143 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Ledger, S., Vidovich, L. & O’Donoghue, T. 2014. Case Study One: Satu International School (SIS). In: Vidovich, L. & O’Donoghue, T. (eds) Global to Local Curriculum Policy Processes: The Enactment of the International Baccalaureate in Remote International Schools. Springer International Publishing, Cham, 85–107.

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 Systematic Palaeontology.

Blog post

Taub, B. 2016. Music’s Effect On The Brain May Be Controlled By Dopamine Genes. IFLScience. World Wide Web Address: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/music-s-effect-on-brain-may-controlled-by-dopamine-genes/.

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. 1990. Pell Grants: How the Department of Education Estimates Program Costs. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, HRD-90-73BR pp.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Boyer, T. H. 2008. Removal of Natural Organic Matter by Anion Exchange: Multiscale Experimentation and Mathematical Modeling. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina.

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

Brantley, B. 2017. First Comes Love, Then Mortality. New York Times, C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kroes 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Channell & Lomolino 2000; Kroes 2008).

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

Two authors: (Channell & Lomolino 2000)
Three or more authors: (Grützner et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Systematic Palaeontology
Abbreviation	J. Syst. Palaeontol.
ISSN (print)	1477-2019
ISSN (online)	1478-0941
Scope	Palaeontology