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

Craelius W (2002). The bionic man: restoring mobility. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295, 1018–1021.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stixrude L, Peacor DR (2002). First-principles study of illite-smectite and implications for clay mineral systems. Nature 420, 165–168.

A journal article with 3 authors

Siveter DJ, Williams M, Waloszek D (2001). A phosphatocopid crustacean with appendages from the Lower Cambrian. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293, 479–481.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mikkola I, Heavey B, Horcher M, Busslinger M (2002). Reversion of B cell commitment upon loss of Pax5 expression. Science (New York, N.Y.) 297, 110–113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rapaport H (2011). ‘The Literary Theory Toolkit’. (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK)

An edited book

Ruyter DJ de, Miedema S (Eds.) (2011). ‘Moral Education and Development: A Lifetime Commitment’. (SensePublishers: Rotterdam)

A chapter in an edited book

Kearney MS (2013). Coastal Risk Versus Vulnerability in an Uncertain Sea Level Future. In ‘Coastal Hazards’. (Ed CW Finkl.) Coastal Research Library. pp. 101–115. (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 Australian Journal of Zoology.

Blog post

Fang J (2015). Crows Make New Friends When There’s Info On Food To Be Shared. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/crows-make-new-friends-when-theres-info-food-be-shared/ [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 (1980). Opinion on the Legality of the Scheduled Transfer of Administrative Responsibility for Certain Law Enforcement Education Programs. B-198096. 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

Johnston JS (2017). Echo in Three Acts: The Lost Historical Subject in (Dis)articulation. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University Washington, DC.

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

SOPHIA PECK ROSS.RICHARD F. BLOUGH.HUGH ARCHBALD.ALEXANDER ROYDEN.RAPHAEL.SPENCER B. WITTY.CARL R. KLEIN, Tilis LB, JOSEPH A. CELESTE.JONATHAN ESTOFF.GEORGES SCHREIBER.THOMAS J. BARNUM.ALLAN C. INMAN (1950). Letters; NOT CITY GUIDES TO THE PEOPLE GOP TROUBLE GRACE AND CHARM HOWL WITTY, TOO A BAS ‘ERPIVORI’ OLD HAT FOREIGN SERVICE HERITAGE. New York Times, The New York Times Magazine151.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Craelius 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Craelius 2002; Stixrude and Peacor 2002).

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

Two authors: (Stixrude and Peacor 2002)
Three or more authors: (Mikkola et al. 2002)

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