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

Theise, N.D., 2005. Now you see it, now you don’t. Nature 435, 1165.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheu, Y.-J., Stillman, B., 2010. The Dbf4-Cdc7 kinase promotes S phase by alleviating an inhibitory activity in Mcm4. Nature 463, 113–117.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levayer, R., Hauert, B., Moreno, E., 2015. Cell mixing induced by myc is required for competitive tissue invasion and destruction. Nature 524, 476–480.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chabot, J.R., Pedraza, J.M., Luitel, P., van Oudenaarden, A., 2007. Stochastic gene expression out-of-steady-state in the cyanobacterial circadian clock. Nature 450, 1249–1252.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zepernick, H.-J., Finger, A., 2005. Pseudo Random Signal Processing. John Wiley & Sons Ltd,., West Sussex, England.

An edited book

Johnson, H., 2008. Violence Against Women: An International Perspective. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Sagar, M., Robertson, P., Bullivant, D., Efimov, O., Jawed, K., Kalarot, R., Wu, T., 2015. BL: A Visual Computing Framework for Interactive Neural System Models of Embodied Cognition and Face to Face Social Learning, in: Calude, C.S., Dinneen, M.J. (Eds.), Unconventional Computation and Natural Computation: 14th International Conference, UCNC 2015, Auckland, New Zealand, August 30 -- September 3, 2015, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 71–88.

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., 2014. Photographer and Leopard Seal Come Face-to-Face [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/photographer-and-leopard-seal-come-face-face/ (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, 2006. Aviation Security: Management Challenges Remain for the Transportation Security Administration’s Secure Flight Program (No. GAO-06-864T). 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

Mocilnikar, G.E., 2011. Playing with movies: An examination of the interactions between music and film in “Fantasie for horn and film” (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

Hostetter, M.A., 2016. Dear Dad: We’ve Been Gay for a Really Long Time. New York Times ST6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Theise, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Sheu and Stillman, 2010; Theise, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Sheu and Stillman, 2010)
Three or more authors: (Chabot et al., 2007)

About the journal

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

Research and Writing Guides