How to format your references using the Journal of New Zealand Grasslands citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of New Zealand Grasslands (JNZG). 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

Cobb SR. 2015. Cognitive disorders: Deep brain stimulation for Rett syndrome. Nature 526: 331–332.

A journal article with 2 authors

Byers J, Dunn S. 2013. Response to comments on ‘Bateman in nature: predation on offspring reduces the potential for sexual selection’. Science (New York, N.Y.) 340: 549.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tersoff J, Jesson DE, Tang WX. 2009. Running droplets of gallium from evaporation of gallium arsenide. Science (New York, N.Y.) 324: 236–238.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Krantz BA, Melnyk RA, Zhang S, Juris SJ, Lacy DB, Wu Z, Finkelstein A, Collier RJ. 2005. A phenylalanine clamp catalyzes protein translocation through the anthrax toxin pore. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309: 777–781.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mather PM, Koch M. 2011. Computer Processing of Remotely-Sensed Images. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

von Eckardstein A, Kardassis D (Eds.). 2015. High Density Lipoproteins: From Biological Understanding to Clinical Exploitation. Springer International Publishing, Cham, XIII, 694 p. 40 illus., 37 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Adam S, Naab M, Trapp M. 2010. A Service-Oriented View on Business Processes and Supporting Applications. In: Bider I, Halpin T, Krogstie J, Nurcan S, Proper E, Schmidt R, Ukor R Eds. Enterprise, Business-Process and Information Systems Modeling: 11th International Workshop, BPMDS 2010, and 15th International Conference, EMMSAD 2010, held at CAiSE 2010, Hammamet, Tunisia, June 7-8, 2010. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 39–48.

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 New Zealand Grasslands.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. Bubonic Plague Outbreak Spreads in Madagascar. IFLScience. Retrieved 30 October 2018 from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/bubonic-plague-outbreak-spreads-madagascar/.

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. 1996. Embedded Computers: B-1B Computers Must Be Upgraded to Support Conventional Requirements [Report AIMD-96-28]. 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

Martinez V. 2010. The relationship between visit to a doctor and the health behaviors of children. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Burghardt LF. 2008. ‘Traffic Calming’ Theory Can Provoke a Storm.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cobb 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Byers & Dunn 2013, Cobb 2015).

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

Two authors: (Byers & Dunn 2013)
Three or more authors: (Krantz et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of New Zealand Grasslands
ISSN (print)	2463-2872
ISSN (online)	2463-2880
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