How to format your references using the Quaternary Science Reviews citation style

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

Prusiner, S.B., 2002. Historical essay. Discovering the cause of AIDS. Science 298, 1726.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jesson, L.K., Barrett, S.C.H., 2002. Solving the puzzle of mirror-image flowers. Nature 417, 707.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kislev, M.E., Hartmann, A., Bar-Yosef, O., 2006. Early domesticated fig in the Jordan Valley. Science 312, 1372–1374.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Evan, A.T., Vimont, D.J., Heidinger, A.K., Kossin, J.P., Bennartz, R., 2009. The role of aerosols in the evolution of tropical North Atlantic Ocean temperature anomalies. Science 324, 778–781.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Reiher, M., Wolf, A., 2014. Relativistic Quantum Chemistry. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Robillard, M.P., Maalej, W., Walker, R.J., Zimmermann, T. (Eds.), 2014. Recommendation Systems in Software Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Becker, T., 2009. Semantic Information Processing for Multi-party Interaction, in: Matoušek, V., Mautner, P. (Eds.), Text, Speech and Dialogue: 12th International Conference, TSD 2009, Pilsen, Czech Republic, September 13-17, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 14–14.

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 Quaternary Science Reviews.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Spitfire Insects Need Leaders and Followers [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2016. Space Acquisitions: Challenges Facing DOD as it Changes Approaches to Space Acquisitions (No. GAO-16-471T). 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

Miller, C., 2010. Assembly and analysis of an Sp185/333 gene cluster from the purple sea urchin: Putative evidence for microsatellite-mediated gene and segmental duplication (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

M’kay, I.P., 1936. REDEFINING POLITICAL TERMS; Need Seen for New Outlook on the Tariff and Isolation. New York Times social news books14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Prusiner, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Jesson and Barrett, 2002; Prusiner, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Jesson and Barrett, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Evan et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Quaternary Science Reviews
Abbreviation	Quat. Sci. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0277-3791
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Archaeology Geology Global and Planetary Change