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

Shanklin, J., 2010. Reflections on the ozone hole. Nature 465, 34–35.

A journal article with 2 authors

Devanna, P., Vernes, S.C., 2014. A direct molecular link between the autism candidate gene RORa and the schizophrenia candidate MIR137. Sci. Rep. 4, 3994.

A journal article with 3 authors

Michael Beman, J., Arrigo, K.R., Matson, P.A., 2005. Agricultural runoff fuels large phytoplankton blooms in vulnerable areas of the ocean. Nature 434, 211–214.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hjouj, M., Lavee, J., Last, D., Guez, D., Daniels, D., Sharabi, S., Rubinsky, B., Mardor, Y., 2013. The effect of blood flow on magnetic resonance imaging of non thermal irreversible electroporation. Sci. Rep. 3, 3088.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Blumberg, L.M., 2010. Temperature-Programmed Gas Chromatography. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Hidy, G.M., Brook, J.R., Demerjian, K.L., Molina, L.T., Pennell, W.T., Scheffe, R.D. (Eds.), 2011. Technical Challenges of Multipollutant Air Quality Management. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Sosnovskiy, L., Sherbakov, S., 2016. Principles of Mechanothermodynamics, in: Sherbakov, S. (Ed.), Mechanothermodynamics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 91–123.

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. Newly Discovered Planet Has Four Parent Stars [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, 2015. Indian Affairs: Preliminary Results Show Continued Challenges to the Oversight and Support of Education Facilities (No. GAO-15-389T). 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

Baghaei Lakeh, A., 2013. Approximate Analytical Solutions of a Generalized van der Pol Oscillator (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Saslow, L., 2007. Suffolk Seeks Ways to Ease School Taxes. New York Times LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Shanklin, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Devanna and Vernes, 2014; Shanklin, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Devanna and Vernes, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Hjouj et al., 2013)

About the journal

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