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

Chandler, V.L. (2010): Paramutation’s properties and puzzles. – Science (New York, N.Y.), 330 (6004): 628–629.

A journal article with 2 authors

Menand, T. & Tait, S.R. (2001): A phenomenological model for precursor volcanic eruptions. – Nature, 411 (6838): 678–680.

A journal article with 3 authors

West, M., Sánchez, J.J. & McNutt, S.R. (2005): Periodically triggered seismicity at Mount Wrangell, Alaska, after the Sumatra earthquake. – Science (New York, N.Y.), 308 (5725): 1144–1146.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Roth, G.S., Mattison, J.A., Ottinger, M.A., Chachich, M.E., Lane, M.A. & Ingram, D.K. (2004): Aging in rhesus monkeys: relevance to human health interventions. – Science (New York, N.Y.), 305 (5689): 1423–1426.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Liu, H.H. (2011): Oracle Database Performance and Scalability. – (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Landers, R.N. & Schmidt, G.B. (eds) (2016): Social Media in Employee Selection and Recruitment: Theory, Practice, and Current Challenges. – pp. 1–XXVI, 376 p. 45 illus., 35 illus. in color (Springer International Publishing) Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

El Ouali, A., Sefrioui, S., Mudry, J., Fassi Fihri, O., Essahlaoui, A. & Marah, H. (2014): Contribution of Isotopes of the Water Molecule to Determine Recharge Altitude of the Main Springs Welling Up in the Middle Atlas Limestone (Morocco). – In: Mudry, J., Zwahlen, F., Bertrand, C. & LaMoreaux, J.W.: H2Karst Research in Limestone Hydrogeology. – pp. 59–68 (Springer International Publishing) Cham.

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

Andrew, E. (2015): So Your Teenager Is Vaping E-Cigarettes – Should You Worry? – IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/so-your-teenager-vaping-e-cigarettes-should-you-worry/.

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 (1990): Children’s Issues: A Decade of GAO Reports and Recent Activities. – (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

Robinson-Scott, D. (2010): Policy analysis of the Chafee Foster Care Independence Act of 1999. – Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Hernández, J.C. (2013): From His Father’s Decline, de Blasio ‘Learned What Not to Do’. – New York Times: A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chandler 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Menand & Tait 2001; Chandler 2010).

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

Two authors: (Menand & Tait 2001)
Three or more authors: (Roth et al. 2004)

About the journal

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