How to format your references using the Cretaceous Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Cretaceous Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Binney, J.J., 2006. Astronomy. Triangulating the galaxy. Science 311, 44–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gibbons, G.W., Shellard, E.P.S., 2002. Cosmology. Tales of singularities. Science 295, 1476–1477.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miller, K.M., Rog, O., Cooper, J.P., 2006. Semi-conservative DNA replication through telomeres requires Taz1. Nature 440, 824–828.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, D., Tian, H., Yang, Y., Xie, D., Ren, T.-L., Zhang, Y., 2013. Scalable and direct growth of graphene micro ribbons on dielectric substrates. Sci. Rep. 3, 1348.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sexton, D., 2008. Trump University Branding 101. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kozlov, V.V., Buslaev, A.P., Bugaev, A.S., Yashina, M.V., Schadschneider, A., Schreckenberg, M. (Eds.), 2013. Traffic and Granular Flow ’11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ebert, C., Dumke, R., 2007. Planning the Measurement Process, in: Dumke, R. (Ed.), Software Measurement: Establish — Extract — Evaluate — Execute. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 73–90.

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 Cretaceous Research.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. Possible Treatment for MERS Revealed [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/possible-treatment-mers-revealed/ (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, 2015. Women in STEM Research: Federal Agencies Differ in the Data They Collect on Grant Applicants (No. GAO-15-291R). 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

Chepete, P., 2008. Modeling of the factors affecting mathematical achievement of Form 1 students in Botswana based on the 2003 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Gustines, G.G., 2015. Comics, Classic and Newer, Make a Comeback. New York Times B2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Binney, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Binney, 2006; Gibbons and Shellard, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Gibbons and Shellard, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cretaceous Research
Abbreviation	Cretac. Res.
ISSN (print)	0195-6671
Scope	Palaeontology