How to format your references using the Vegetation History and Archaeobotany citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vegetation History and Archaeobotany. 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

Savage N (2014) Bioinformatics: Big data versus the big C. Nature 509:S66-7

A journal article with 2 authors

Floreano D, Wood RJ (2015) Science, technology and the future of small autonomous drones. Nature 521:460–466

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang K, Zhang Y, Wang S (2013) Enhancing thermoelectric properties of organic composites through hierarchical nanostructures. Sci Rep 3:3448

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Marscher AP, Jorstad SG, Gómez J-L, et al (2002) Observational evidence for the accretion-disk origin for a radio jet in an active galaxy. Nature 417:625–627

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Obayya S, Hameed MFO, Areed NFF (2016) Computational Liquid Crystal Photonics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Christakos G (2005) Interdisciplinary Public Health Reasoning and Epidemic Modelling: The Case of Black Death. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Fobis-Loisy I, Ivanov R, Gaude T (2012) The S-LOCUS CYSTEINE-RICH PROTEIN (SCR): A Small Peptide with A High Impact on the Evolution of Flowering Plants. In: Irving HR, Gehring C (eds) Plant Signaling Peptides. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 77–92

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 Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016) Yes, Wearing A Bike Helmet Really Does Reduce Your Risk Of Injury. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/yes-wearing-a-bike-helmet-really-does-reduce-your-risk-of-injury/. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2007) Highway and Transit Investments: Flexible Funding Supports State and Local Transportation Priorities and Multimodal Planning. 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

Tovar L (2009) Perceived life satisfaction of previously undocumented Latino immigrants. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Luongo MT (2017) Capturing A City at War With Itself. New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savage 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Savage 2014; Floreano and Wood 2015).

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

Two authors: (Floreano and Wood 2015)
Three or more authors: (Marscher et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
Abbreviation	Veg. Hist. Archaeobot.
ISSN (print)	0939-6314
ISSN (online)	1617-6278
Scope	Plant Science Archaeology Palaeontology