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

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

Sincell, M., 2000, INSTITUTIONAL PROFILE: Scientific Ballooning’s Buoyant Mood: Science (New York, N.Y.), v. 289, p. 534–536.

A journal article with 2 authors

Luoto, T.P., and Nevalainen, L., 2013, Long-term water temperature reconstructions from mountain lakes with different catchment and morphometric features: Scientific Reports, v. 3, p. 2488.

A journal article with 3 authors

Catalli, K., Shim, S.-H., and Prakapenka, V., 2009, Thickness and Clapeyron slope of the post-perovskite boundary: Nature, v. 462, p. 782–785.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhong, H.-X., Shi, J.-J., Zhang, M., Jiang, X.-H., Huang, P., and Ding, Y.-M., 2014, Reducing Mg acceptor activation-energy in Al(0.83)Ga(0.17)N disorder alloy substituted by nanoscale (AlN)₅/(GaN)₁ superlattice using Mg(Ga) δ-doping: Mg local-structure effect: Scientific Reports, v. 4, p. 6710.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Afoakwa, E.O., 2016, Chocolate Science and Technology: Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, .

An edited book

2011, Crossroads: History of Science, History of Art: Essays by David Speiser, Vol. II (Williams, K., ed.): Basel, Springer, XII, 154 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Greve, A., and Bremer, M., 2010, The Variable Thermal Environment, in Bremer, M., ed., Thermal Design and Thermal Behaviour of Radio Telescopes and Their Enclosures, Astrophysics and Space Science Library: Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, p. 55–83.

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 Paleontology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2016, Russia Wants To Send People Back To The Moon In 2031. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/russia-wants-to-send-people-to-the-moon-in-2031/. Accessed October 30, 2018 IFLScience.

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, 2001, Airline Competition: Issues Raised by Consolidation Proposals: Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Yackel, R.J., 2010, Recruitment and retention of nurses in long -term care within the Florida Department of Veterans’ Affairs [Doctoral dissertation]: Phoenix, AZ, University of Phoenix.

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

Meacham, J., 2017, The Man to Blame for Our Culture of Fame: New York Times, p. BR17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sincell, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Sincell, 2000; Luoto and Nevalainen, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Luoto and Nevalainen, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Zhong et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Paleontology
Abbreviation	J. Paleontol.
ISSN (print)	0022-3360
ISSN (online)	1937-2337
Scope	Palaeontology