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

Loder, N., 2000. Unfavourable economics put postdocs across Europe under strain. Nature 407, 427–429.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tamura, A., Yui, N., 2014. Lysosomal-specific cholesterol reduction by biocleavable polyrotaxanes for ameliorating Niemann-Pick type C disease. Sci. Rep. 4, 4356.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dharmawardhana, C.C., Misra, A., Ching, W.-Y., 2014. Quantum mechanical metric for internal cohesion in cement crystals. Sci. Rep. 4, 7332.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lezec, H.J., Degiron, A., Devaux, E., Linke, R.A., Martin-Moreno, L., Garcia-Vidal, F.J., Ebbesen, T.W., 2002. Beaming light from a subwavelength aperture. Science 297, 820–822.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Santamarina, J.C., Fratta, D., 2006. Discrete Signals and Inverse Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Ferraz Dias de Moraes, M.A., 2014. Production of Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil: From State Intervention to a Free Market, Natural Resource Management and Policy. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Au, S.K., 2016. Bayesian Operational Modal Analysis, in: Chatzi, E., Papadimitriou, C. (Eds.), Identification Methods for Structural Health Monitoring, CISM International Centre for Mechanical Sciences. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 117–135.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. The Space Around Galaxies Is Full Of Heavy Elements [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, 1986. [Response to Request for Views on Application of P.L. 99-177 to Teacher Loan Cancellations] (No. B-221498.20). 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

Naughton, C.C., 2013. Assessing Appropriate Technology Handwashing Stations in Mali, West Africa (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Douglas Stone, A., Schwab-Stone, M., 2016. Why College Is Not Home. New York Times ED21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Loder, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Loder, 2000; Tamura and Yui, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Tamura and Yui, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Lezec et al., 2002)

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