How to format your references using the Der Zoologische Garten citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Der Zoologische Garten. 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

Morton, O. (2000). PARTICLE PHYSICS: The Final Tally Leaves LEP a Probable Loser. Science (New York, N.Y.), 290(5495), 1274a.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hol, F. J. H., & Dekker, C. (2014). Zooming in to see the bigger picture: microfluidic and nanofabrication tools to study bacteria. Science (New York, N.Y.), 346(6208), 1251821.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pulendran, B., Palucka, K., & Banchereau, J. (2001). Sensing pathogens and tuning immune responses. Science (New York, N.Y.), 293(5528), 253–256.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Park, J. T., Chi, W. S., Kim, S. J., Lee, D., & Kim, J. H. (2014). Mesoporous TiO₂ Bragg stack templated by graft copolymer for dye-sensitized solar cells. Scientific Reports, 4, 5505.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Müller, G., & Ponick, B. (2005). Grundlagen elektrischer Maschinen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Rosenberg, E., & Gophna, U. (Eds.). (2011). Beneficial Microorganisms in Multicellular Life Forms. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Gardner, P., Sturgeon, H., Jones, L., & Surlin, S. (2016). Body Editing: Dance Biofeedback Experiments in Apperception. In M. Kurosu (Ed.), Human-Computer Interaction. Interaction Platforms and Techniques: 18th International Conference, HCI International 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17-22, 2016. Proceedings, Part II (pp. 49–60). Springer International Publishing.

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 Der Zoologische Garten.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2015, July 10). Permian Era Had Two Mass Extinctions. IFLScience; 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. (1990). Observations on Ohio’s Implementation of the Drug-Free Schools and Communities Act of 1986 (T-HRD-90-12). 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

Borisova-Kidder, A. (2006). Meta-Analytical Estimates of Values of Environmental Services Enhanced by Government Agricultural Conservation Programs [Doctoral dissertation]. Ohio State University.

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

Greenhouse, L. (2007, December 5). Supreme Court Hears Medical Device Case. New York Times, C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Morton, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Hol & Dekker, 2014; Morton, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Hol & Dekker, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Park et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Der Zoologische Garten
Abbreviation	Zool. Gart.
ISSN (print)	0044-5169
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology