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

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

Walker P. 2000. Nuclear physics. Doubly magic nickel. Nature. 404(6777):447, 449.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bever JD, Wang M. 2005. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi: hyphal fusion and multigenomic structure. Nature. 433(7022):E3-4; discussion E4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tobler PN, Fiorillo CD, Schultz W. 2005. Adaptive coding of reward value by dopamine neurons. Science. 307(5715):1642–1645.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Croll DA, Maron JL, Estes JA, Danner EM, Byrd GV. 2005. Introduced predators transform subarctic islands from grassland to tundra. Science. 307(5717):1959–1961.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Malina M. 2013. Delivering Sustainable Buildings. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Taylor RH, Yang G-Z, editors. 2011. Information Processing in Computer-Assisted Interventions: Second International Conference, IPCAI 2011, Berlin, Germany, June 22, 2011. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chen G, Bui TD, Krzyzak A. 2010. Denoising of Three Dimensional Data Cube Using Bivariate Wavelet Shrinking. In: Campilho A, Kamel M, editors. Image Analysis and Recognition: 7th International Conference, ICIAR 2010, Póvoa de Varzim, Portugal, June 21-23, 2010 Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 45–51.

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 the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Researchers Reveal Grim Details Of An Early Neolithic Massacre. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/researchers-reveal-grim-details-early-neolithic-massacre/

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. 1981. Request for Comments on Proposed Amendment. 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

Heffner MD. 2017. Informing Decision-Making for Derailments Involving Hazmat: An Analysis of Phmsa Train Accident Data [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

Walsh MW. 2012. Untouchable Pensions May Be Tested in California. 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 (Walker 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Walker 2000; Bever and Wang 2005).

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

Two authors: (Bever and Wang 2005)
Three or more authors: (Croll et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
ISSN (print)	0303-6758
ISSN (online)	1175-8899
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