How to format your references using the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 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

Hernanz, M. (2015), "Astrophysics: A lithium-rich stellar explosion" Nature, 518, 7539, 307–308.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weissleder, R., and Pittet, M. J. (2008), "Imaging in the era of molecular oncology" Nature, 452, 7187, 580–589.

A journal article with 3 authors

Muir, G., Fleming, C. C., and Schlötterer, C. (2000), "Species status of hybridizing oaks" Nature, 405, 6790, 1016.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jirawatnotai, S., Hu, Y., Michowski, W., Elias, J. E., Becks, L., Bienvenu, F., Zagozdzon, A., Goswami, T., Wang, Y. E., Clark, A. B., Kunkel, T. A., van Harn, T., Xia, B., Correll, M., Quackenbush, J., Livingston, D. M., Gygi, S. P., and Sicinski, P. (2011), "A function for cyclin D1 in DNA repair uncovered by protein interactome analyses in human cancers" Nature, 474, 7350, 230–234.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mattone, J., and Vaidya, N. (2016), Cultural Transformations, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Shukla, P. (2015), Computational Approaches in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii for Effectual Bio-hydrogen Production, SpringerBriefs in Systems Biology, (M. V. K. Karthik, ed.), New Delhi, Springer India.

A chapter in an edited book

Vittal, V., and Ma, F. (2013), "A Hybrid Dynamic Equivalent Using ANN-Based Boundary Matching Technique" in J. H. Chow (Ed.), Power System Coherency and Model Reduction, Power Electronics and Power Systems, New York, NY, Springer, 91–118.

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 Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015), "The Water Industry Needs To Join The Fight Against Superbugs" IFLScience, IFLScience, <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/water-industry-needs-join-fight-against-superbugs/> (Oct. 30, 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. (2012), Passenger Rail Security: Consistent Incident Reporting and Analysis Needed to Achieve Program Objectives, Washington, DC, 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

Muniyappa, V. K. (2012), "Performance analysis of IPv4 versus IPv6 in a simple campus network" Doctoral dissertation, Long Beach, CA, 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. (2011), "Writer’s Body Is Weaker, But Voice Remains Strong" New York Times, A29B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hernanz 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Hernanz 2015; Weissleder and Pittet 2008).

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

Two authors: (Weissleder and Pittet 2008)
Three or more authors: (Jirawatnotai et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales
ISSN (print)	0035-9173
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