How to format your references using the Palaeodiversity citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Palaeodiversity. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Dolgin, E. (2013): Cancer vaccines: Material breach. – Nature, 504 (7480): S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crespi, B., & Springer, S. (2003): Ecology. Social slime molds meet their match. – Science (New York, N.Y.), 299 (5603): 56–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hansen, S. B., Tao, X., & MacKinnon, R. (2011): Structural basis of PIP2 activation of the classical inward rectifier K+ channel Kir2.2. – Nature, 477 (7365): 495–498.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Long, Z., Zhou, Y., Chen, G., Ge, W., & Wang, J. (2014): C3N4-H5PMo10V2O40: a dual-catalysis system for reductant-free aerobic oxidation of benzene to phenol. – Scientific Reports, 4 : 3651.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cicek, V. (2013): Cathodic Protection. Hoboken, NJ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Gordon, I. J. (ed.) (2009): The Vicuña: The Theory and Practice of Community Based Wildlife Management. VIII, 256 p. 21 illus., 1 illus. in color pp.; Boston, MA (Springer US).

A chapter in an edited book

Rolfe, J., Bennett, J., & Kerr, G. (2015): Applied Benefit Transfer: An Australian and New Zealand Policy Perspective. – In: R. J. Johnston, J. Rolfe, R. S. Rosenberger, & R. Brouwer (eds.), Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values: A Guide for Researchers and Practitioners (pp. 85–100). Dordrecht (Springer Netherlands).

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 Palaeodiversity.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015, May 7): Portable DNA Sequencer Identifies Species From The Field. . Retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/portable-dna-sequencer-identify-species-field/

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 (1998): Intercity Passenger Rail: Prospects for Amtrak’s Financial Viability (No. RCED-98-211R). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dzubaty, D. R. (2013): Understanding the undergraduate experience of the baccalaureate nursing student with English as an additional language (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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. (2017, February 11): Fixing What Ain’t Broke? That’s Ruinous. – New York Times, p. D3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dolgin 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Crespi & Springer 2003; Dolgin 2013).

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

Two authors: (Crespi & Springer 2003)
Three or more authors: (Long et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Palaeodiversity
ISSN (print)	1867-6294
ISSN (online)	1869-4802
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