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

Varmus, H. (2006): The new era in cancer research. – Science (New York, N.Y.), 312 (5777): 1162–1165.

A journal article with 2 authors

Appavoo, K. & Haglund, R.F., Jr (2014): Polarization selective phase-change nanomodulator. – Scientific reports, 4: 6771.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mora, C., Danovaro, R. & Loreau, M. (2014): Alternative hypotheses to explain why biodiversity-ecosystem functioning relationships are concave-up in some natural ecosystems but concave-down in manipulative experiments. – Scientific reports, 4: 5427.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chou, C.-W., Laurat, J., Deng, H., Choi, K.S., de Riedmatten, H., Felinto, D. & Kimble, H.J. (2007): Functional quantum nodes for entanglement distribution over scalable quantum networks. – Science (New York, N.Y.), 316 (5829): 1316–1320.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wilmott, P. & Orrell, D. (2017): The Money Formula. – (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd) Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Laza, R., Schütt, M. & Yui, N. (eds) (2013): Arithmetic and Geometry of K3 Surfaces and Calabi–Yau Threefolds. – pp. 1–XXVI, 602 p. 41 illus., 16 illus. in color (Springer) New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Simonis, H. & Hadzic, T. (2011): A Resource Cost Aware Cumulative. – In: Larrosa, J. & O’Sullivan, B.: Recent Advances in Constraints: 14th Annual ERCIM International Workshop on Constraint Solving and Constraint Logic Programming, CSCLP 2009, Barcelona, Spain, June 15-17, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. – pp. 76–89 (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

Fang, J. (2014): Cockatoos Learn How To Make and Use Tools From Each Other. – IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cockatoos-teach-each-other-how-make-and-use-tools/.

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): Early Childhood Programs: Characteristics Affect the Availability of School Readiness Information. – (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

Ma, B. (2012): Improving the performance of hyperspectral target detection. – Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University.

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

Sisario, B. (2017): Country Breakthrough On the Billboard Chart. – New York Times: C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Varmus 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Varmus 2006; Appavoo & Haglund 2014).

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

Two authors: (Appavoo & Haglund 2014)
Three or more authors: (Chou et al. 2007)

About the journal

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