How to format your references using the Swiss Journal of Palaeontology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Swiss Journal of Palaeontology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Koenig, R. (2000). IRANIAN SCIENCE: Iran’s Scientists Cautiously Reach Out to the World. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5496), 1484–1487.

A journal article with 2 authors

Nandagopal, N., & Elowitz, M. B. (2011). Synthetic biology: integrated gene circuits. Science (New York, N.Y.), 333(6047), 1244–1248.

A journal article with 3 authors

Acuna, D. E., Allesina, S., & Kording, K. P. (2012). Future impact: Predicting scientific success. Nature, 489(7415), 201–202.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kienast, M., Kienast, S. S., Calvert, S. E., Eglinton, T. I., Mollenhauer, G., François, R., & Mix, A. C. (2006). Eastern Pacific cooling and Atlantic overturning circulation during the last deglaciation. Nature, 443(7113), 846–849.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee. (2005). Continuous Direct-Heat Rotary Dryers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Bandrauk, A. D., & Ivanov, M. (Eds.). (2011). Quantum Dynamic Imaging: Theoretical and Numerical Methods (1st ed.). New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Mao, Y., Wang, Y., Wang, L., & Zhou, Q. (2015). Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell, a Rising Star in Regenerative Medicine. In R. C. Zhao (Ed.), Stem Cells: Basics and Clinical Translation (pp. 85–109). Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

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 Swiss Journal of Palaeontology.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, May 6). Telescope Detects Oldest And Most Distant Known Galaxy. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/oldest-furthest-galaxy-found/. Accessed 30 October 2018

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). Local Media Advertising: FCC Should Take Action to Ensure Television Stations Publicly File Advertising Agreements (No. GAO-16-349). 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

Anderson, M. S. (2017). Integrating Emergency Medical Services Into the Patient-Centered Medical Home (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Saslow, L. (2008, August 17). Graduation Rates Rise, and Bar Is Raised. New York Times, p. LI2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Koenig 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Koenig 2000; Nandagopal and Elowitz 2011).

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

Two authors: (Nandagopal and Elowitz 2011)
Three or more authors: (Kienast et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Swiss Journal of Palaeontology
Abbreviation	Swiss J. Palaeontol.
ISSN (print)	1664-2376
ISSN (online)	1664-2384
Scope	Palaeontology