How to format your references using the Palynology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Palynology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Masood E. 2013. Pakistan must seize the chance to revive its science. Nature. 500(7460):7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vijg J, Campisi J. 2008. Puzzles, promises and a cure for ageing. Nature. 454(7208):1065–1071.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schätz T, Schramm U, Habs D. 2001. Crystalline ion beams. Nature. 412(6848):717–720.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Dasgupta S, Rajapakshe K, Zhu B, Nikolai BC, Yi P, Putluri N, Choi JM, Jung SY, Coarfa C, Westbrook TF, et al. 2018. Metabolic enzyme PFKFB4 activates transcriptional coactivator SRC-3 to drive breast cancer. Nature. 556(7700):249–254.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jufer M. 2013. Electric Drives. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ferrari G, editor. 2009. Sensor Networks: Where Theory Meets Practice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Schier F, Turial S. 2013. Upper Abdomen. In: Turial S, editor. Laparoscopy in Children. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 45–63.

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 Palynology.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2015. The Cacao Tree Is A Lot Older Than We Thought. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chocolates-cacao-tree-revealed-be-10-million-years-old/

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. Information Security: Software Change Controls at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chen G. 2005. Essays On Using Weather Derivatives In Dairy Production [Doctoral dissertation]. Columbus, OH: Ohio 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

Cowen T. 2015. Stuck in Line? Think of What You Stand to Gain. New York Times.:BU3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Masood 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Vijg and Campisi 2008; Masood 2013).

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

Two authors: (Vijg and Campisi 2008)
Three or more authors: (Dasgupta et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Palynology
Abbreviation	Palynology
ISSN (print)	0191-6122
ISSN (online)	1558-9188
Scope	Palaeontology