How to format your references using the Marine Micropaleontology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Marine Micropaleontology. 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

Scudellari, M., 2015. Drug development: Mix and match. Nature 521, S12-4.

A journal article with 2 authors

Valiela, I., Fox, S.E., 2008. Ecology. Managing coastal wetlands. Science 319, 290–291.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gardner, T.S., Cantor, C.R., Collins, J.J., 2000. Construction of a genetic toggle switch in Escherichia coli. Nature 403, 339–342.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Krattinger, S.G., Lagudah, E.S., Spielmeyer, W., Singh, R.P., Huerta-Espino, J., McFadden, H., Bossolini, E., Selter, L.L., Keller, B., 2009. A putative ABC transporter confers durable resistance to multiple fungal pathogens in wheat. Science 323, 1360–1363.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jacobsson, M., Niemegeers, I., Heemstra de Groot, S., 2010. Personal Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Raczkowski, K., 2015. Risk Management in the Polish Financial System: A Systemic Approach. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Crandall, A.S., Cook, D.J., 2013. Behaviometrics for Identifying Smart Home Residents, in: Bosse, T., Cook, D.J., Neerincx, M., Sadri, F. (Eds.), Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence: Contemporary Challenges and Solutions, Atlantis Ambient and Pervasive Intelligence. Atlantis Press, Paris, pp. 55–71.

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 Marine Micropaleontology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Japan Restarts First Nuclear Power Plant Since Fukushima Disaster [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/japan-restarts-first-nuclear-power-plant-fukushima-disaster/ (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, 2013. National Airspace System: Airport-Centric Development (No. GAO-13-261). 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

Wellman, T.E., 2017. Employment Discrimination against Military Spouses: Illegal Contrary to Popular Belief and Practice (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Vecsey, G., 2011. It’s Form, Not Dysfunction, on Final Day. New York Times B16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Scudellari, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Scudellari, 2015; Valiela and Fox, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Valiela and Fox, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Krattinger et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Marine Micropaleontology
Abbreviation	Mar. Micropaleontol.
ISSN (print)	0377-8398
Scope	Oceanography Palaeontology