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

Chapman, C. R. (2000): Meteorites. The long trip to Earth. – Nature, 407 (6804): 573, 575–576.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nussenzveig, P., & Barata, J. C. A. (2010): Physics. A drop of quantum matter. – Science (New York, N.Y.), 328 (5985): 1491–1492.

A journal article with 3 authors

Irvine, W. T. M., Vitelli, V., & Chaikin, P. M. (2010): Pleats in crystals on curved surfaces. – Nature, 468 (7326): 947–951.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Ge, K., Guermah, M., Yuan, C.-X., Ito, M., Wallberg, A. E., Spiegelman, B. M., & Roeder, R. G. (2002): Transcription coactivator TRAP220 is required for PPAR gamma 2-stimulated adipogenesis. – Nature, 417 (6888): 563–567.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, W. (2004): Risk Assessment of Power Systems. Hoboken, NJ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.).

An edited book

Wang, J., Yen, G. G., & Polycarpou, M. M. (eds.) (2012): Advances in Neural Networks – ISNN 2012: 9th International Symposium on Neural Networks, Shenyang, China, July 11-14, 2012. Proceedings, Part II (Vol. 7368). XXV, 669 p. 314 illus pp.; Berlin, Heidelberg (Springer).

A chapter in an edited book

Li, D., Cao, J., Liu, M., & Zheng, Y. (2007): K-Connected Target Coverage Problem in Wireless Sensor Networks. – In: A. Dress, Y. Xu, & B. Zhu (eds.), Combinatorial Optimization and Applications: First International Conference, COCOA 2007, Xi’an, China, August 14-16, 2007. Proceedings (pp. 20–31). Berlin, Heidelberg (Springer).

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

Andrew, D. (2015, April 7): BBC Makes A Hilarious Error In Their Coverage Of The LHC. . Retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/physics/large-hardon-collider-why-spell-check-important/

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 (1987): [Comments on Senate’s Liability for Special Charges and Taxes Related to Telephone Service] (No. B-225123). 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

Mazon, W. E. (2009): The effect of the Breath Builder^TM on various lung functions and musical performance abilities of clarinet players (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Billard, M. (2014, January 16): Walking in Paint-Spattered Footsteps. – New York Times, p. E6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chapman 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Chapman 2000; Nussenzveig & Barata 2010).

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

Two authors: (Nussenzveig & Barata 2010)
Three or more authors: (Ge et al. 2002)

About the journal

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