How to format your references using the Australian Journal of Zoology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Journal of Zoology. 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	Download the output style file
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

Bowie JU (2013). Structural biology. Membrane protein twists and turns. Science (New York, N.Y.) 339, 398–399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Grant PR, Grant BR (2002). Unpredictable evolution in a 30-year study of Darwin’s finches. Science (New York, N.Y.) 296, 707–711.

A journal article with 3 authors

Czaplicka A, Holyst JA, Sloot PMA (2013). Noise enhances information transfer in hierarchical networks. Scientific reports 3, 1223.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Abram NJ, Gagan MK, McCulloch MT, Chappell J, Hantoro WS (2003). Coral reef death during the 1997 Indian Ocean Dipole linked to Indonesian wildfires. Science (New York, N.Y.) 301, 952–955.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sexton D (2008). ‘Trump University Branding 101’. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Hernández-Sánchez H, Gutiérrez-López GF (Eds.) (2015). ‘Food Nanoscience and Nanotechnology’. (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

A chapter in an edited book

Garshol LM (2006). TMRAP – Topic Maps Remote Access Protocol. In ‘Charting the Topic Maps Research and Applications Landscape: First International Workshop on Topic Map Research and Applications, TMRA 2005, Leipzig, Germany, October 6-7, 2005, Revised Selected Papers’. (Eds L Maicher, J Park.) Lecture Notes in Computer Science. pp. 53–68. (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 Australian Journal of Zoology.

Blog post

Luntz S (2016). Vera Rubin, Discoverer Of Dark Matter, Has Died Aged 88. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/vera-rubin-discoverer-of-dark-matter-has-died-aged-88/ [accessed 30 October 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 (1994). Advance Sheets: Volume 73, Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States. OGC-94-28. 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

Patil AV (2017). Programming QR code scanner, communicating Android devices, and unit testing in fortified cards. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach Long Beach, 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

Murphy MJO (2011). Down the Tube. New York Times, BR15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bowie 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Grant and Grant 2002; Bowie 2013).

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

Two authors: (Grant and Grant 2002)
Three or more authors: (Abram et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Journal of Zoology
Abbreviation	Aust. J. Zool.
ISSN (print)	0004-959X
ISSN (online)	1446-5698
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics