How to format your references using the Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Review of Palaeobotany and 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

Hede, K., 2014. Antibiotic resistance: An infectious arms race. Nature 509, S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weiss, R.A., Stoye, J.P., 2013. Virology. Our viral inheritance. Science 340, 820–821.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lower, S.K., Hochella, M.F., Jr, Beveridge, T.J., 2001. Bacterial recognition of mineral surfaces: nanoscale interactions between Shewanella and alpha-FeOOH. Science 292, 1360–1363.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sikes, H.D., Smalley, J.F., Dudek, S.P., Cook, A.R., Newton, M.D., Chidsey, C.E., Feldberg, S.W., 2001. Rapid electron tunneling through oligophenylenevinylene bridges. Science 291, 1519–1523.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon, M.K., Lee, D., Martin, W.L., Tsou, H., Yan, T.-Y., 2005. Bandwidth-Efficient Digital Modulation with Application to Deep Space Communications. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Love, P.B., Kundu, R.V. (Eds.), 2016. Clinical Cases in Skin of Color: Adnexal, Inflammation, Infections, and Pigmentary Disorders, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Khoa, N.L.D., Chawla, S., 2012. Large Scale Spectral Clustering Using Resistance Distance and Spielman-Teng Solvers, in: Ganascia, J.-G., Lenca, P., Petit, J.-M. (Eds.), Discovery Science: 15th International Conference, DS 2012, Lyon, France, October 29-31, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 7–21.

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 Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2016. New Research Is Connecting Genetic Variations To Schizophrenia And Other Mental Illnesses [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, 1990. B-2 Bomber: Initial Flight Tests (No. NSIAD-90-284). 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

Aggarwal, E., 2012. South Asian women’s attitudes toward help-seeking behaviors (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Gustines, G.G., 2015. Diversity Comes to Superheroes. New York Times D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hede, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Hede, 2014; Weiss and Stoye, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Weiss and Stoye, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Sikes et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Review of Palaeobotany and Palynology
Abbreviation	Rev. Palaeobot. Palynol.
ISSN (print)	0034-6667
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Palaeontology