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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Experimental 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

Cui W. 2005. Astronomy. Very energetic gamma rays from microblazars. Science 309:714–715.

A journal article with 2 authors

Murray N, Holman M. 2001. The role of chaotic resonances in the Solar System. Nature 410:773–779.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bandyopadhyay PR, Leinhos HA, Hellum AM. 2013. Handedness helps homing in swimming and flying animals. Sci Rep 3:1128.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Hoffmann A, Levchenko A, Scott ML, Baltimore D. 2002. The IkappaB-NF-kappaB signaling module: temporal control and selective gene activation. Science 298:1241–1245.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang Y, Wen F, Xiao M. 2013. Quantum Control of Multi-Wave Mixing. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Lee H. 2012. Beginning Windows Phone App Development. (Chuvyrov E, editor.). Berkeley, CA: Apress.

A chapter in an edited book

Caspi P, Benveniste A, Lublinerman R, Tripakis S. 2009. Actors without Directors: A Kahnian View of Heterogeneous Systems. In: Majumdar R, Tabuada P, editors. Hybrid Systems: Computation and Control: 12th International Conference, HSCC 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, April 13-15, 2009. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. p 46–60.

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 of Experimental Zoology.

Blog post

Taub B. 2015. Spanish Town Bathed In Mysterious “Blood Rain.” IFLScience [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/spanish-town-bathed-mysterious-blood-rain/

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. 1982. Improper Use of Federal Student Aid Funds for Lobbying Activities. 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

Jha JS. 2013. [3+2] Cycloaddition Reaction of Gem-Dicyanoepoxide and Electrophilic Reaction of Ethyl Atropate.

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

Hollander S. 2000. Syracuse and Princeton Survive to Reach Final. New York Times:88.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cui, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Murray and Holman, 2001; Cui, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Murray and Holman, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Hoffmann et al., 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Zoology
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Zool. A Ecol. Genet. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	1932-5223
ISSN (online)	1932-5231
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics Molecular Biology Physiology