How to format your references using the Comptes rendus - Palevol citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Comptes rendus - Palevol. 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

Chapman, H.N., 2008. Applied physics. Focus on x-ray diffraction. Science 321, 352–353.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee, J.-H., Paull, T.T., 2004. Direct activation of the ATM protein kinase by the Mre11/Rad50/Nbs1 complex. Science 304, 93–96.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baldini, J.U.L., McDermott, F., Fairchild, I.J., 2002. Structure of the 8200-year cold event revealed by a speleothem trace element record. Science 296, 2203–2206.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Keeling, L., Andersson, L., Schütz, K.E., Kerje, S., Fredriksson, R., Carlborg, O., Cornwallis, C.K., Pizzari, T., Jensen, P., 2004. Chicken genomics: feather-pecking and victim pigmentation. Nature 431, 645–646.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

DiBerardinis, L.J., Baum, J.S., First, M.W., Gatwood, G.T., Seth, A.K., 2013. Guidelines for Laboratory Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bajc, V. (Ed.), 2016. Surveilling and Securing the Olympics: From Tokyo 1964 to London 2012 and Beyond, Transnational Crime, Crime Control and Security. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Gong, S., Barrie, L.A., 2009. The Distribution of Atmospheric Aerosols: Transport, Transformation and Removal, in: Levin, Z., Cotton, W.R. (Eds.), Aerosol Pollution Impact on Precipitation: A Scientific Review. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 91–141.

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 Comptes rendus - Palevol.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Holding Out For ‘The One’ Makes Evolutionary Sense, Suggests Lovebirds Study [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1980. Space Industrialization Act of 1980 (No. 112559). 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

Robertson-Tessi, M., 2010. Mathematical models of tumor growth and therapy (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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., 2009. A Different World Is Awaiting the U.S. New York Times B12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chapman, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Chapman, 2008; Lee and Paull, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Paull, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Keeling et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Comptes rendus - Palevol
Abbreviation	C. R. Palevol
ISSN (print)	1631-0683
Scope	Palaeontology