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

Rind, D. 2002. The Sun’s role in climate variations. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296:673–677.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schmittner, A., and E. D. Galbraith. 2008. Glacial greenhouse-gas fluctuations controlled by ocean circulation changes. Nature, 456:373–376.

A journal article with 3 authors

Säterberg, T., S. Sellman, and B. Ebenman. 2013. High frequency of functional extinctions in ecological networks. Nature, 499:468–470.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yang, D., J. Carpena-Núñez, L. F. Fonseca, A. Biaggi-Labiosa, and G. W. Hunter. 2014. Shape-controlled synthesis of palladium and copper superlattice nanowires for high-stability hydrogen sensors. Scientific Reports, 4:3773.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li, F. M., A. Nathan, Y. Wu, and B. S. Ong. 2011. Organic Thin Film Transistor Integration. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany, p.

An edited book

McGrady, A. 2013. Pathways to Illness, Pathways to Health (D. Moss (ed.)). Springer, New York, NY, XIV, 263 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Verdonschot, P. F. M. 2006. Data composition and taxonomic resolution in macroinvertebrate stream typology; p. 59–74. In M. T. Furse, D. Hering, K. Brabec, A. Buffagni, L. Sandin, and P. F. M. Verdonschot (eds.), The Ecological Status of European Rivers: Evaluation and Intercalibration of Assessment Methods., . Developments in Hydrobiology Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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. 12-Year-Old Receives First 3D Printed Vertebra Implant. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/12-year-old-receives-first-3d-printed-vertebra-implant/ 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. National Transportation Safety Board: Issues Related to the 2010 Reauthorization. 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

Bryan, J. D. 2009. Team development social networking and its impact on the encouragement of spiritual leadership. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ 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

Neuman, W. 2015. Fleeing an Uncertain Future in Venezuela. New York Times, A4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rind, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Rind, 2002; Schmittner and Galbraith, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Schmittner and Galbraith, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Yang et al., 2014)

About the journal

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