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

You Z (2014) Materials design. Folding structures out of flat materials. Science 345:623–624

A journal article with 2 authors

Reysenbach A-L, Shock E (2002) Merging genomes with geochemistry in hydrothermal ecosystems. Science 296:1077–1082

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun X, Mariani FV, Martin GR (2002) Functions of FGF signalling from the apical ectodermal ridge in limb development. Nature 418:501–508

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Abdi-Jalebi M, Andaji-Garmaroudi Z, Cacovich S, et al (2018) Maximizing and stabilizing luminescence from halide perovskites with potassium passivation. Nature 555:497–501

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aldridge P, O’Dwyer L (2013) Practical Emergency and Critical Care Veterinary Nursing. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK

An edited book

Khan SU, Kołodziej J, Li J, Zomaya AY (eds) (2013) Evolutionary Based Solutions for Green Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

King RD (2005) The Robot Scientist Project. In: Jain S, Simon HU, Tomita E (eds) Algorithmic Learning Theory: 16th International Conference, ALT 2005, Singapore, October 8-11, 2005. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 12–12

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

O`Callaghan J (2016) We’re About To Get Some Amazing New Images Of Saturn And Its Rings. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/were-about-to-get-some-amazing-new-images-of-saturn-and-its-rings/. 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 (1997) FCC: Non-Voice, Non-Geostationary Mobile Satellite Service. 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

Fisher MD (2014) The impact adult supervision, role models, and civic engagement has on the health status of adolescents. 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

Sisario B (2017) Lorde Makes Her Way To the Top of Chart. New York Times C3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (You 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Reysenbach and Shock 2002; You 2014).

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

Two authors: (Reysenbach and Shock 2002)
Three or more authors: (Abdi-Jalebi et al. 2018)

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

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