How to format your references using the Palaeodiversity citation style

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

Dehgan, A. (2012): Creating the new development ecosystem. – Science (New York, N.Y.), 336 (6087): 1397–1398.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wyithe, J. S. B., & Loeb, A. (2002): Magnification of light from many distant quasars by gravitational lenses. – Nature, 417 (6892): 923–925.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huang, J., Lesser, C. F., & Lory, S. (2008): The essential role of the CopN protein in Chlamydia pneumoniae intracellular growth. – Nature, 456 (7218): 112–115.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Sandoval, H., Thiagarajan, P., Dasgupta, S. K., Schumacher, A., Prchal, J. T., Chen, M., & Wang, J. (2008): Essential role for Nix in autophagic maturation of erythroid cells. – Nature, 454 (7201): 232–235.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deacon, M., Derry, A., & Mirfendereski, D. (2004): Inflation-indexed Securities. Oxford, UK (John Wiley & Sons Ltd).

An edited book

Wendt, K. (ed.) (2015): Responsible Investment Banking: Risk Management Frameworks, Sustainable Financial Innovation and Softlaw Standards. LI, 674 p. 140 illus pp.; Cham (Springer International Publishing).

A chapter in an edited book

Selinger, P. (2011): A Survey of Graphical Languages for Monoidal Categories. – In: B. Coecke (ed.), New Structures for Physics (pp. 289–355). Berlin, Heidelberg (Springer).

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 Palaeodiversity.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2016, September 21): Paris Climate Deal Nears Finishing Line As UK Announces It Will Ratify Agreement. . Retrieved 30 October 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/environment/paris-climate-deal-nears-finishing-line-as-uk-announces-it-will-ratify-agreement/

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 (1980): Increasing Costs, Competition May Hinder U.S. Position of Leadership in High Energy Physics (No. EMD-80-58). 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

Zhu, M. (2017): Numerical Investigation of Encapsulation Technology in Polymer Flooding Processes (Doctoral dissertation). University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Brantley, B. (2016, October 31): The Fine Art of Using Love as a Weapon. – New York Times, p. C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dehgan 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Dehgan 2012; Wyithe & Loeb 2002).

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

Two authors: (Wyithe & Loeb 2002)
Three or more authors: (Sandoval et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Palaeodiversity
ISSN (print)	1867-6294
ISSN (online)	1869-4802
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