How to format your references using the Marine Micropaleontology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Marine Micropaleontology. 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

Gray, R., 2005. Evolution. Pushing the time barrier in the quest for language roots. Science 309, 2007–2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brüning, O., Collier, P., 2007. Building a behemoth. Nature 448, 285–289.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mabe, S., Nagamune, T., Kawahara, M., 2014. Detecting protein-protein interactions based on kinase-mediated growth induction of mammalian cells. Sci. Rep. 4, 6127.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chessum, L., Matern, M.S., Kelly, M.C., Johnson, S.L., Ogawa, Y., Milon, B., McMurray, M., Driver, E.C., Parker, A., Song, Y., Codner, G., Esapa, C.T., Prescott, J., Trent, G., Wells, S., Dragich, A.K., Frolenkov, G.I., Kelley, M.W., Marcotti, W., Brown, S.D.M., Elkon, R., Bowl, M.R., Hertzano, R., 2018. Helios is a key transcriptional regulator of outer hair cell maturation. Nature.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moll, W., Moll, A., 2011. Schallschutz im Wohnungsbau. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

León, B., 2014. From Robot to Human Grasping Simulation, Cognitive Systems Monographs. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Appice, A., Di Pietro, M., Greco, C., Malerba, D., 2016. Discovering and Tracking Organizational Structures in Event Logs, in: Ceci, M., Loglisci, C., Manco, G., Masciari, E., Ras, Z.W. (Eds.), New Frontiers in Mining Complex Patterns: 4th International Workshop, NFMCP 2015, Held in Conjunction with ECML-PKDD 2015, Porto, Portugal, September 7, 2015, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 46–60.

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 Marine Micropaleontology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. These Two Cheap Drugs Could Cut Breast Cancer Deaths [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, 1991. Highway Demonstration Projects: Improved Selection and Funding Controls Are Needed (No. RCED-91-146). 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

Murdock, M., 2010. Memoir as contemporary myth (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Cooper, M., Walsh, M.W., 2012. Unions Fight Scranton Mayor After He Cuts Pay to Minimum Wage. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gray, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Brüning and Collier, 2007; Gray, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Brüning and Collier, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Chessum et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Micropaleontology
Abbreviation	Mar. Micropaleontol.
ISSN (print)	0377-8398
Scope	Oceanography Palaeontology