How to format your references using the The Holocene citation style

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

Murphy KM (2011) Comment on “Activation of β-catenin in dendritic cells regulates immunity versus tolerance in the intestine.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 333(6041): 405; author reply 405.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tsuchiya T and Eulgem T (2013) Mutations in EDM2 selectively affect silencing states of transposons and induce plant developmental plasticity. Scientific reports 3: 1701.

A journal article with 3 authors

Alexander RB, Smith RA and Schwarz GE (2000) Effect of stream channel size on the delivery of nitrogen to the Gulf of Mexico. Nature 403(6771): 758–761.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kang Y, Kuybeda O, de Waal PW, Mukherjee S, Van Eps N, Dutka P, et al. (2018) Cryo-EM structure of human rhodopsin bound to an inhibitory G protein. Nature 558(7711): 553–558.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kramer H (2013) Angewandte Baudynamik. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Sethi RA, Barani IJ, Larson DA and Roach M III (eds) (2016) Handbook of Evidence-Based Stereotactic Radiosurgery and Stereotactic Body Radiotherapy. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Bundgaard H and Cold GE (2008) Studies of Regional Subdural Pressure Gradients During Craniotomy. In: Cold GE and Juul N (eds) Monitoring of Cerebral and Spinal Haemodynamics During Neurosurgery. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 89–102.

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 Holocene.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Tomorrow’s Battery Technologies That Could Power Your Home. IFLScience. IFLScience.

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 (2000) Telecommunications: GSA’s Estimates of FTS2001 Revenues Are Reasonable. 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

Kreisel M (2015) Gabor frames for quasicrystals and K-theory. Doctoral dissertation, College Park, MD, University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Vecsey G (2010) U.S. Team Needs A Bradley or Two. New York Times, 28 June, page D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Murphy, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Murphy, 2011; Tsuchiya and Eulgem, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Tsuchiya and Eulgem, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Kang et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Holocene
Abbreviation	Holocene
ISSN (print)	0959-6836
ISSN (online)	1477-0911
Scope	Archaeology Earth-Surface Processes Palaeontology Ecology Global and Planetary Change