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

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

Atchley, W.R., 2011. Retrospective. Walter M. Fitch (1929-2011). Science 332, 804.

A journal article with 2 authors

Purugganan, M.D., Fuller, D.Q., 2009. The nature of selection during plant domestication. Nature 457, 843–848.

A journal article with 3 authors

Levey, D.J., Duncan, R.S., Levins, C.F., 2004. Animal behaviour: use of dung as a tool by burrowing owls. Nature 431, 39.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Curran, L.M., Trigg, S.N., McDonald, A.K., Astiani, D., Hardiono, Y.M., Siregar, P., Caniago, I., Kasischke, E., 2004. Lowland forest loss in protected areas of Indonesian Borneo. Science 303, 1000–1003.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Keegan, K.D., 2008. Biotechnology Valuation. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Deer, T.R., Pope, J.E. (Eds.), 2016. Atlas of Implantable Therapies for Pain Management, 2nd ed. 2016. ed. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Petersson, B., Vamling, K., 2016. Vanished in the Haze: White Elephants, Environmental Degradation and Circassian Marginalization in Post-Olympics Sochi, in: Makarychev, A., Yatsyk, A. (Eds.), Mega Events in Post-Soviet Eurasia: Shifting Borderlines of Inclusion and Exclusion. Palgrave Macmillan US, New York, NY, pp. 59–76.

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 Palaeogeography.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2017. Researchers Reveal How The Brain Rewires Itself In People Blind Since Birth [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, 1966. Comments on Bill To Amend NASA Act of 1958 (No. B-141387). 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

Sherman, C.P., 2001. The effect of head and heart on municipal employee retention (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, 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

Markoff, J., 2017. Defying Roadblocks, Silicon Valley Tests a Flying Car. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Atchley, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Atchley, 2011; Purugganan and Fuller, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Purugganan and Fuller, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Curran et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Palaeogeography
ISSN (print)	2095-3836
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