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

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

Burnett K (2000) Laser-matter interactions. It takes two electrons to tango. Nature 405:631, 633

A journal article with 2 authors

Baum J, Cowman AF (2011) Biochemistry. Revealing a parasite’s invasive trick. Science 333:410–411

A journal article with 3 authors

Powell MD, Vickery PJ, Reinhold TA (2003) Reduced drag coefficient for high wind speeds in tropical cyclones. Nature 422:279–283

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Lee H-Y, Kléber M, Hari L, et al (2004) Instructive role of Wnt/beta-catenin in sensory fate specification in neural crest stem cells. Science 303:1020–1023

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Robbins NB (2004) Creating More Effective Graphs. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Schiavon F, Guglielmi G, Rotondo A (eds) (2012) La comunicazione radiologica nella società del benessere. Springer, Milano

A chapter in an edited book

Eremeyev VA, Pietraszkiewicz W (2013) Material Symmetry Group and Consistently Reduced Constitutive Equations of the Elastic Cosserat Continuum. In: Altenbach H, Forest S, Krivtsov A (eds) Generalized Continua as Models for Materials: with Multi-scale Effects or Under Multi-field Actions. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 77–90

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 Journal of Paleolimnology.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Researchers Discover Enormous Ancient Crocodile That Walked Upright. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2007) Highlights of a Forum: Health Care 20 Years From Now--Taking Steps Today to Meet Tomorrow’s Challenges. 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

Garcia RI (2009) Variable selection for models with missing data. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina

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

Pilon M (2012) View at Practice Courts an Intimate but Possibly Endangered Perk. New York Times D4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Burnett 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Burnett 2000; Baum and Cowman 2011).

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

Two authors: (Baum and Cowman 2011)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Paleolimnology
Abbreviation	J. Paleolimnol.
ISSN (print)	0921-2728
ISSN (online)	1573-0417
Scope	Aquatic Science Earth-Surface Processes