How to format your references using the Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Begelman, M. (2009): Astronomy. A flare for acceleration. Science (New York, N.Y.) 325(5939): 399–400.

A journal article with 2 authors

Du, H. & Rosbash, M. (2002): The U1 snRNP protein U1C recognizes the 5’ splice site in the absence of base pairing. Nature 419(6902): 86–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yamamoto-Kawai, M., Carmack, E. & McLaughlin, F. (2006): Nitrogen balance and Arctic throughflow. Nature 443(7107): 43.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cui, A., Li, W., Shen, T. H., Yao, Y., Fenton, J. C., Peng, Y., Liu, Z., Zhang, J. & Gu, C. (2013): Thermally induced shape modification of free-standing nanostructures for advanced functionalities. Scientific reports 3: 2429.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, L., Peng, M., Chang, D. & Xu, Y. (2016): Dam Failure Mechanisms and Risk Assessment. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Padget, J., Artikis, A., Vasconcelos, W., Stathis, K., Silva, V. T. da, Matson, E. & Polleres, A. (eds). (2010): Coordination, Organizations, Institutions and Norms in Agent Systems V: COIN 2009 International Workshops. COIN@AAMAS 2009, Budapest, Hungary, May 2009, COIN@IJCAI 2009, Pasadena, USA, July 2009, COIN@MALLOW 2009, Turin, Italy, September 2009. Revised Selected Papers. Vol. 6069. – Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XVIII, 335 p. 103 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Fischer, P., Berton, A. & Nürnberger, A. (2008): Adaptive Search Results Personalized by a Fuzzy Recommendation Approach. Pp. 26–36. In: André, E., Dybkjær, L., Minker, W., Neumann, H., Pieraccini, R., & Weber, M. (eds): Perception in Multimodal Dialogue Systems: 4th IEEE Tutorial and Research Workshop on Perception and Interactive Technologies for Speech-Based Systems, PIT 2008, Kloster Irsee, Germany, June 16-18, 2008. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae.

Blog post

Fang, J. (2015): New Tiniest Snail Smashes Month-Old World Record. IFLScience.

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. (1998): Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Modernization Program. 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, C. (2012): Directed blogging with community college ESL students: Its effects on awareness of language acquisition processes. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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. (2013): Thinking Beyond the Creationists and the Darwinists. New York Times A25B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Begelman 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Du & Rosbash 2002; Begelman 2009).

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

Two authors: (Du & Rosbash 2002)
Three or more authors: (Cui et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Zoologica Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae
ISSN (print)	1217-8837
ISSN (online)	2064-2474
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