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

Petherick A. 2012. Environment and genetics: Making sense of the noise. Nature. 485(7400):S64-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brockmann D, Helbing D. 2013. The hidden geometry of complex, network-driven contagion phenomena. Science. 342(6164):1337–1342.

A journal article with 3 authors

Langmore NE, Hunt S, Kilner RM. 2003. Escalation of a coevolutionary arms race through host rejection of brood parasitic young. Nature. 422(6928):157–160.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Candille SI, Kaelin CB, Cattanach BM, Yu B, Thompson DA, Nix MA, Kerns JA, Schmutz SM, Millhauser GL, Barsh GS. 2007. A -defensin mutation causes black coat color in domestic dogs. Science. 318(5855):1418–1423.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Khanlari R, Fard MS. 2015. FIDIC Plant and Design-Build Form of Contract Illustrated. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chinesta F. 2007. Advances in Material Forming: Esaform 10 years on. Cueto E, editor. Paris: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Greiner K, Dick AD. 2008. Therapeutic Vitrectomy for Noninfectious Uveitis. In: Becker M, Davis J, editors. Surgical Management of Inflammatory Eye Disease. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 35–45.

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

O`Callaghan J. 2015. NASA Forced To Hand $490 Million To Russia For Flights To The ISS And Their Chief Is Pissed. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-has-fork-out-490-million-russia-again-and-their-chief-pissed/

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. 2017. Aviation Security: TSA Does Not Have Valid Evidence Supporting Most of the Revised Behavioral Indicators Used in Its Behavior Detection Activities. 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

Tu K-H. 2017. Structural and Functional Analysis of Apolipoprotein E3/E4 Hybrid [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Goodstein L, Shear MD. 2017. Trump’s Order on Religious Liberty Pleases Some, but Lets Down Conservatives. New York Times.:A22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Petherick 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Petherick 2012; Brockmann and Helbing 2013).

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

Two authors: (Brockmann and Helbing 2013)
Three or more authors: (Candille et al. 2007)

About the journal

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