How to format your references using the The Depositional Record citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Depositional Record. 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

Müller-Wodarg, I.C.F. (2006) Planetary science. Exploring other worlds to learn more about our own. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5778), 1319–1320.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bardgett, R.D. & van der Putten, W.H. (2014) Belowground biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Nature, 515(7528), 505–511.

A journal article with 3 authors

Johnson, C.L., Constable, C.G. & Tauxe, L. (2003) Geophysics. Mapping long-term changes in Earth’s magnetic field. Science (New York, N.Y.), 300(5628), 2044–2045.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bejerano, G., Lowe, C.B., Ahituv, N., King, B., Siepel, A., Salama, S.R., Rubin, E.M., Kent, W.J. & Haussler, D. (2006) A distal enhancer and an ultraconserved exon are derived from a novel retroposon. Nature, 441(7089), 87–90.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mitra, A. (2008) Fundamentals of Quality Control and Improvement. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pommier, Y. (Ed.) (2012) DNA Topoisomerases and Cancer, 1st ed. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Al-Baali, A.G.A.-G. & Farid, M.M. (2006) Thermal Sterilization Of Food In Cans. In: Farid, M.M. (Ed.) Sterilization Of Food In Retort Pouches. Springer US, pp. 45–92.

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 The Depositional Record.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014) This Is What Astronauts See As They Re-Enter Earth’s Atmosphere. Available at : https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-do-astronauts-see-upon-re-entry/.

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 (1994) Highway Contracting: Disadvantaged Business Program Meets Contract Goal, but Refinements Are Needed (No. RCED-94-168). 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

Spezia, K. (2015) Numerical Modeling of Fluid Flow and Heat Transfers in Porous Media (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Koblin, J. (2017) New Life Emerges From the ‘Big Bang’. New York Times, p. AR114.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Müller-Wodarg, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Bardgett & van der Putten, 2014; Müller-Wodarg, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Bardgett & van der Putten, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Bejerano et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Depositional Record
ISSN (online)	2055-4877
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