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

Cerutti A (2010) Immunology. IgA changes the rules of memory. Science 328:1646–1647

A journal article with 2 authors

Yuan J, Poulin P (2014) Materials science. Fibers do the twist. Science 343:845–846

A journal article with 3 authors

Costello MJ, May RM, Stork NE (2013) Can we name Earth’s species before they go extinct? Science 339:413–416

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Li J, Huang S, Shao K, et al (2013) A choline derivate-modified nanoprobe for glioma diagnosis using MRI. Sci Rep 3:1623

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Nomura S (2016) Micromechanics with Mathematica. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Burnap R, Vermaas W (eds) (2012) Functional Genomics and Evolution of Photosynthetic Systems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Kolvekar SK, Panagiotopoulos N (2016) Pectus Carinatum. In: Kolvekar S, Pilegaard H (eds) Chest Wall Deformities and Corrective Procedures. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 21–23

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

Andrew E (2015) Scientists Discover How A Single Mutation Can Cause Autism. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientist-find-how-genetic-switch-likely-cause-autism/. 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Readiness Improving Yet Essential Actions Remain to Ensure Delivery of Critical Services. 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

Green RE (2010) From Hart to Hammerstein: The music of Richard Rodgers and his evolution toward the integrated musical. 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

Crow K (2001) The Park as Hollywood East, With Stars Blossoming. New York Times 146

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cerutti 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Cerutti 2010; Yuan and Poulin 2014).

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

Two authors: (Yuan and Poulin 2014)
Three or more authors: (Li et al. 2013)

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