How to format your references using the The Depositional Record citation style

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

Gewin, V. (2006) Burst of energy. Nature, 441(7095), 810–811.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rainey, P.B. & Rainey, K. (2003) Evolution of cooperation and conflict in experimental bacterial populations. Nature, 425(6953), 72–74.

A journal article with 3 authors

James, A., Pitchford, J.W. & Plank, M.J. (2013) James et al. reply. Nature, 500(7463), E2-3.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yasuda, S., Oceguera-Yanez, F., Kato, T., Okamoto, M., Yonemura, S., Terada, Y., Ishizaki, T. & Narumiya, S. (2004) Cdc42 and mDia3 regulate microtubule attachment to kinetochores. Nature, 428(6984), 767–771.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stamp, M. (2005) Information Security. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Evans, N. (2015) A Systematic Review of Rural Development Research: Characteristics, Design Quality and Engagement with Sustainability. (M. Lasen & K. Tsey, Eds.). Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Raymond-Yakoubian, J. (2016) Conceptual and Institutional Frameworks for Protected Areas, and the Status of Indigenous Involvement: Considerations for the Bering Strait Region of Alaska. In: Herrmann, T.M. & Martin, T. (Eds.) Indigenous Peoples’ Governance of Land and Protected Territories in the Arctic. Springer International Publishing, pp. 83–103.

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 The Depositional Record.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2014) Jurassic Parasite Sucked Salamander Blood. Available at : https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/jurassic-parasite-sucked-salamander-blood/.

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 (1977) The Concorde: Results of a Supersonic Aircraft’s Entry into the United States (No. CED-77-131). 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

Adams, T.A. (2012) Improving Scores on Computerized Reading Assessments: The Effects of Colored Overlay Use (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Wagner, J. (2016) Battered but Persevering, Mets Reach the Threshold of the Postseason. New York Times, p. D2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gewin, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Gewin, 2006; Rainey & Rainey, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Rainey & Rainey, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Yasuda et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	The Depositional Record
ISSN (online)	2055-4877
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