How to format your references using the Palaeontographica Abteilung B: Palaeobotany - Palaeophytology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Palaeontographica Abteilung B: Palaeobotany - Palaeophytology. 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

Jokipii, J.R. (2005): Astronomy. Our interstellar neighborhood. – Science (New York, N.Y.), 307 (5714): 1424–1425.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schultz, T.F. & Kay, S.A. (2003): Circadian clocks in daily and seasonal control of development. – Science (New York, N.Y.), 301 (5631): 326–328.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green, M.T., Dawson, J.H. & Gray, H.B. (2004): Oxoiron(IV) in chloroperoxidase compound II is basic: implications for P450 chemistry. – Science (New York, N.Y.), 304 (5677): 1653–1656.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fridman, E., Carrari, F., Liu, Y.-S., Fernie, A.R. & Zamir, D. (2004): Zooming in on a quantitative trait for tomato yield using interspecific introgressions. – Science (New York, N.Y.), 305 (5691): 1786–1789.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bullock, J. (2017): Wireshark® for Security Professionals. – (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.) Indianapolis, Indiana.

An edited book

Tuniz, C. (2016): Humans: An Unauthorized Biography. – pp. 1–XIII, 124 p. 25 illus., 15 illus. in color (Springer International Publishing) Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Lenci, S. & Rega, G. (2005): Bifurcation and Chaos in Mechanical Applications: A Dynamical Systems Approach to Their Control. – In: Rega, G. & Vestroni, F.: IUTAM Symposium on Chaotic Dynamics and Control of Systems and Processes in Mechanics: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Rome, Italy, 8–13 June 2003. – pp. 47–57 (Springer Netherlands) Dordrecht.

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 Palaeontographica Abteilung B: Palaeobotany - Palaeophytology.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014): Identical genetics doesn’t mean identical behavior for bacteria. – IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/identical-genetics-doesn’t-mean-identical-behavior-bacteria/.

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 (1982): Budget Authority Rescission Proposals. – (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

Gleason, R. (2013): Nanosphere lithography applied to magnetic thin films. – Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach.

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

Poniewozik, J. (2017): Will He Let Loose the Hounds? – New York Times: C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jokipii 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Schultz & Kay 2003; Jokipii 2005).

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

Two authors: (Schultz & Kay 2003)
Three or more authors: (Fridman et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Palaeontographica Abteilung B: Palaeobotany - Palaeophytology
ISSN (print)	2194-900X
ISSN (online)	2509-839X
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