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

Sibum HO. 2004. Beyond the ivory tower. What kind of science is experimental physics? Science 306:60–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

Vitetta ES, Ghetie VF. 2006. Immunology. Considering therapeutic antibodies. Science 313:308–309.

A journal article with 3 authors

Brown T, Sibbett W, Wright EM. 2001. Laser physics. Getting to grips with light. Science 293:1265–1267.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Pocivavsek L, Dellsy R, Kern A, Johnson S, Lin B, Lee KYC, Cerda E. 2008. Stress and fold localization in thin elastic membranes. Science 320:912–916.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grant G. 2012. Ecosystem Services Come to Town. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Casares-Giner V, Manzoni P, Pont A eds. 2011. NETWORKING 2011 Workshops: International IFIP TC 6 Workshops, PE-CRN, NC-Pro, WCNS, and SUNSET 2011, Held at NETWORKING 2011, Valencia, Spain, May 13, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Spitz F. 2010. Control of Vertebrate Hox Clusters by Remote and Global Cis-Acting Regulatory Sequences. In: Deutsch JS, editor. Hox Genes: Studies from the 20th to the 21st Century. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. New York, NY: Springer. p 63–78.

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

Andrew E. 2015. Adidas Create a Shoe Made Almost Entirely From Ocean Garbage. IFLScience [Internet]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/adidas-has-created-new-shoe-and-it-s-load-garbage/

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. 1992. Aviation Research: FAA Could Enhance Its Program to Meet Current and Future Challenges. 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

McKinney S. 2008. An analysis of the influence of No Child Left Behind and Arizona Learns on middle -school principal leadership behaviors and responsibilities.

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

Stewart JB. 2017. Snap Stretches the Limits of Valuation. New York Times:B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sibum, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Sibum, 2004; Vitetta and Ghetie, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Vitetta and Ghetie, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Pocivavsek et al., 2008)

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