How to format your references using the Vegetation History and Archaeobotany citation style

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

Odling-Smee L (2007) Biofuels bandwagon hits a rut. Nature 446:483

A journal article with 2 authors

Bray GA, Tartaglia LA (2000) Medicinal strategies in the treatment of obesity. Nature 404:672–677

A journal article with 3 authors

Montaño SP, Pigli YZ, Rice PA (2012) The μ transpososome structure sheds light on DDE recombinase evolution. Nature 491:413–417

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Ferris P, Olson BJSC, De Hoff PL, et al (2010) Evolution of an expanded sex-determining locus in Volvox. Science 328:351–354

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bill Huitt WM (2016) Bioprocessing Piping and Equipment Design. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Ito Y (ed) (2014) Thought-Evoking Approaches in Engineering Problems. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Luo M, Watanabe A, Yokota H (2010) Compound Treatment of Chained Declustered Replicas Using a Parallel Btree for High Scalability and Availability. In: Bringas PG, Hameurlain A, Quirchmayr G (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications: 21th International Conference, DEXA 2010, Bilbao, Spain, August 30 - September 3, 2010, Proceedings, Part II. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 49–63

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 Vegetation History and Archaeobotany.

Blog post

Hamilton K (2016) What Happens When You Mix Coca-Cola With Liquid Nitrogen? In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1981) Followup on Actions To Improve Coordination and Utilization of Human Resources Research and Development. 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

Johnson BD (2017) Application of systems engineering principles for analysis of utility baseline development process. 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

Kelly C (2000) Higher Profile for a Little-Known Foundation. New York Times 14WC8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Odling-Smee 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Bray and Tartaglia 2000; Odling-Smee 2007).

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

Two authors: (Bray and Tartaglia 2000)
Three or more authors: (Ferris et al. 2010)

About the journal

Full journal title	Vegetation History and Archaeobotany
Abbreviation	Veg. Hist. Archaeobot.
ISSN (print)	0939-6314
ISSN (online)	1617-6278
Scope	Plant Science Archaeology Palaeontology