How to format your references using the Acta Palaeontologica Polonica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Palaeontologica Polonica. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Graham-Rowe, D. 2011. Epidemiology: Racing against the flu. Nature 480 (7376): S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lardner, B. and bin Lakim, M. 2002. Animal communication: tree-hole frogs exploit resonance effects. Nature 420 (6915): 475.

A journal article with 3 authors

Larsen, R.E., Glover, W.J. and Schwartz, B.J. 2010. Does the hydrated electron occupy a cavity? Science (New York, N.Y.) 329 (5987): 65–69.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, A., Mu, H., Zhang, W., Cui, G., Zhu, J. and Duan, J. 2013. Chitosan coupling makes microbial biofilms susceptible to antibiotics. Scientific reports 3: 3364.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Harrison, A. 2016. The Life of D. H. Lawrence. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, .

An edited book

Steinhaus, H. 2016. Mathematician for All Seasons: Recollections and Notes, Vol. 2 (1945–1968). In Burns, R.G., Szymaniec, I. and Weron, A. (eds.) Vita Mathematica. Vol. 19. Springer International Publishing, Cham, .

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang, S., Lowd, D., Kafle, S. and Dou, D. 2016. Ontology Matching with Knowledge Rules. In: Hameurlain, A., Küng, J., Wagner, R. and Chen, Q. (eds.), Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXVIII: Special Issue on Database- and Expert-Systems Applications, 75–95. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Acta Palaeontologica Polonica.

Blog post

Hale, T. 2017. Hundreds Of Cats Are Quarantined Following Bird Flu Outbreak In NYC. IFLScience. Downloaded from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/hundreds-of-cats-are-quarantined-following-bird-flu-outbreak-in-nyc-/ on 30 October 2018. 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. 1972. Training America’s Labor Force: Potential, Progress, and Problems of Vocational Education. 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

MacKinder, M. 2010. Max the Knife, Salesman.Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CApp.

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

Murphy, M.J.O. 2015. A Paris Changed by Turmoil, a Century Ago. New York Times: C30.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Graham-Rowe 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Lardner and bin Lakim 2002; Graham-Rowe 2011).

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

Two authors: (Lardner and bin Lakim 2002)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Palaeontologica Polonica
Abbreviation	Acta Palaeontol. Pol.
ISSN (print)	0567-7920
ISSN (online)	1732-2421
Scope	Palaeontology