How to format your references using the Palaeontologia Electronica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Palaeontologia Electronica. 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

Moore, P. 2005. May 12. Photocopiers for DNA. Nature 435:237.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fisher, S.E. and Ridley, M. 2013. May 24. Evolution. Culture, genes, and the human revolution. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340:929–930.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kryazhimskiy, S., Draghi, J.A. and Plotkin, J.B. 2011. June 3. Evolution. In evolution, the sum is less than its parts. Science (New York, N.Y.) 332:1160–1161.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Nishihata, Y., Mizuki, J., Akao, T., Tanaka, H., Uenishi, M., Kimura, M., Okamoto, T. and Hamada, N. 2002. July 11. Self-regeneration of a Pd-perovskite catalyst for automotive emissions control. Nature 418:164–167.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scheller-Sheridan, C. 2011. September 23. Basic Guide to Dental Instruments. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK.

An edited book

Homburg, C. 2012. Sales Excellence: Systematic Sales Management. (H. Schäfer and J. Schneider, Eds.)Management for Professionals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bárány, I., Hubard, A. and Jerónimo, J. 2009. Slicing Convex Sets and Measures by a Hyperplane, p. 1–9. In Pollack, R., Pach, J., and Goodman, J.E. (eds.), Twentieth Anniversary Volume: Discrete & Computational Geometry. Springer, New York, NY.

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 Palaeontologia Electronica.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2014. February 28. . IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/technology/new-hybrid-car-runs-air/.

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. 1988. March 28. [Comments on Sequesterability of Railroad Supplemental Annuity Pension Fund]. 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

Tripathi, R.B. 2008. . Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Kirk, S. 1942. February 10. Aid for Greece Sought. New York Times BOOKS18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moore 2005 May 12. ).
This sentence cites two references (Moore 2005 May 12. ; Fisher and Ridley 2013 May 24. ).

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

Two authors: (Fisher and Ridley 2013 May 24. )
Three or more authors: (Nishihata et al. 2002 July 11. )

About the journal

Full journal title	Palaeontologia Electronica
Abbreviation	Palaeontol. Electronica
ISSN (print)	1094-8074
ISSN (online)	1935-3952
Scope	Oceanography