How to format your references using the Palaeontographica Abteilung B: Palaeobotany - Palaeophytology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Palaeontographica Abteilung B: Palaeobotany - Palaeophytology. 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

Schiermeier, Q. (2001): Network boost for southeast Europe. – Nature, 410 (6829): 619.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stott, P.A. & Thorne, P.W. (2010): How best to log local temperatures? – Nature, 465 (7295): 158–159.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alley, R.B., Fahnestock, M. & Joughin, I. (2008): Climate change. Understanding glacier flow in changing times. – Science (New York, N.Y.), 322 (5904): 1061–1062.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tchernichovski, O., Mitra, P.P., Lints, T. & Nottebohm, F. (2001): Dynamics of the vocal imitation process: how a zebra finch learns its song. – Science (New York, N.Y.), 291 (5513): 2564–2569.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burwick, F. (2015): Romanticism. – (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd) Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Sawai, M. (ed.) (2016): Economic Activities Under the Japanese Colonial Empire. – pp. 1–X, 154 p. 20 illus (Springer Japan) Tokyo.

A chapter in an edited book

Riley, L., Atkinson, K., Payne, T. & Black, E. (2012): An Implemented Dialogue System for Inquiry and Persuasion. – In: Modgil, S., Oren, N. & Toni, F.: Theorie and Applications of Formal Argumentation: First International Workshop, TAFA 2011. Barcelona, Spain, July 16-17, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. – pp. 67–84 (Springer) Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Palaeontographica Abteilung B: Palaeobotany - Palaeophytology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015): This Is The True Size Of Africa. – IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/africas-size-perspective/.

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 (2000): Revisions to OMB’s Circular A-130. – (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

Krishnan, R. (2014): Generalized Conditional Matching Algorithm for Ordered and Unordered Sets. – Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida.

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

Lee, L. (2008): Eve Thompson and Richard Robinson. – New York Times: ST11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier 2001; Stott & Thorne 2010).

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

Two authors: (Stott & Thorne 2010)
Three or more authors: (Tchernichovski et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Palaeontographica Abteilung B: Palaeobotany - Palaeophytology
ISSN (print)	2194-900X
ISSN (online)	2509-839X
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