How to format your references using the Journal of Micropalaeontology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Micropalaeontology. 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

Werner, M. J.: Perspective: protect the USA from UVA, Nature, 515, S126, 2014.

A journal article with 2 authors

Krupovic, M. and Koonin, E. V.: Evolution of eukaryotic single-stranded DNA viruses of the Bidnaviridae family from genes of four other groups of widely different viruses, Sci. Rep., 4, 5347, 2014.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heimpel, M., Aurnou, J., and Wicht, J.: Simulation of equatorial and high-latitude jets on Jupiter in a deep convection model, Nature, 438, 193–196, 2005.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Zhang, L.-L., Duan, S., Yang, X.-L., Liang, G., Huang, Y.-H., Cao, X.-Z., Yang, J., Ni, S.-B., and Li, M.: Systematic investigation on Cadmium-incorporation in Li₂FeSiO₄/C cathode material for lithium-ion batteries, Sci. Rep., 4, 5064, 2014.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bullock, J.: Wireshark® for Security Professionals, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Indianapolis, Indiana, 2017.

An edited book

Azambuja, J. R.: Hybrid Fault Tolerance Techniques to Detect Transient Faults in Embedded Processors, edited by: Kastensmidt, F. and Becker, J., Springer International Publishing, Cham, XVIII, 94 p. 37 illus., 11 illus. in color p., 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Hearn, J.: Implications of Recent Developments in e-Commerce for Universal Service Providers and the USO, in: The Future of the Postal Sector in a Digital World, edited by: Crew, M. and Brennan, T. J., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 43–58, 2016.

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 Journal of Micropalaeontology.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Lead Pollution Got To The South Pole Before We Did, 2014., 2014.

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: Telecommunications: Better Coordination and Enhanced Accountability Needed to Improve Spectrum Management, GAO-02-906, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Arab, A. A.: Finite Element Modeling of Pretensioned Concrete Girders: A Methodological Approach with Applications in Large Strands and End Zone Cracking, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2012.

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.: Taming the Biblical Plagues Of Mud and Frogs at a Meadow, , New York Times6th January146, 2002.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Werner, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Krupovic and Koonin, 2014; Werner, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Krupovic and Koonin, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Micropalaeontology
Abbreviation	J. Micropalaeontol.
ISSN (print)	0262-821X
ISSN (online)	2041-4978
Scope	Palaeontology