How to format your references using the Palaeovertebrata citation style

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

Gogotsi, Y. 2014. Materials science: Energy storage wrapped up. Nature, 509:568–570.

A journal article with 2 authors

Delbarco-Trillo, J., and M. H. Ferkin. 2004. Male mammals respond to a risk of sperm competition conveyed by odours of conspecific males. Nature, 431:446–449.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kasen, D., F. K. Röpke, and S. E. Woosley. 2009. The diversity of type Ia supernovae from broken symmetries. Nature, 460:869–872.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jones, J. C., M. R. Myerscough, S. Graham, and B. P. Oldroyd. 2004. Honey bee nest thermoregulation: diversity promotes stability. Science (New York, N.Y.), 305:402–404.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burk, F. 1997. Lebesgue Measure and Integration. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, p.

An edited book

2016. Surgical Intensive Care Medicine (J. M. O’Donnell and F. E. Nácul (eds.)). Springer International Publishing, Cham, XXI, 912 p. 300 illus., 156 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Bernhaupt, R., D. Navarre, P. Palanque, and M. Winckler. 2008. Model-Based Evaluation: A New Way to Support Usability Evaluation of Multimodal Interactive Applications; p. 96–119. In E. L.-C. Law, E. T. Hvannberg, and G. Cockton (eds.), Maturing Usability: Quality in Software, Interaction and Value., . Human-Computer Interaction Series Springer, London.

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 Palaeovertebrata.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2014. Shortlist Finalists Have Been Announced for Sony World Photography Awards. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/shortlist-finalists-have-been-announced-sony-world-photography-awards/ IFLScience.

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. 2010. Rail Safety: Federal Railroad Administration Should Report on Risks to the Successful Implementation of Mandated Safety Technology. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, p.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Tucker, C. M. 2010. End-stage renal disease patients and dialysis: Can consistent transportation influence quality of life and treatment compliance? A grant writing project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA p.

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

Feeney, K. 2006. No-Frills Cuban Fare, and Cheer. New York Times, NJ6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gogotsi, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Delbarco-Trillo and Ferkin, 2004; Gogotsi, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Delbarco-Trillo and Ferkin, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Jones et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Palaeovertebrata
Abbreviation	Palaeovertebrata
ISSN (print)	0031-0247
ISSN (online)	2274-0333
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