How to format your references using the Proceedings of the Zoological Society citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Proceedings of the Zoological Society. 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

Moore, P. D. 2001. A never-ending story. Nature 409: 565.

A journal article with 2 authors

Oh, Da Young, and Jerrold M. Olefsky. 2010. Medicine. Wnt fans the flames in obesity. Science (New York, N.Y.) 329: 397–398.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saalmann, Yuri B., Ivan N. Pigarev, and Trichur R. Vidyasagar. 2007. Neural mechanisms of visual attention: how top-down feedback highlights relevant locations. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316: 1612–1615.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gilbert, Martin J., Christopher R. Thornton, Gavin E. Wakley, and Nicholas J. Talbot. 2006. A P-type ATPase required for rice blast disease and induction of host resistance. Nature 440: 535–539.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Brauer, Roger L. 2005. Safety and Health for Engineers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Labuhn, Dirk. 2009. Keine Panik vor Thermodynamik!: Erfolg und Spaß im klassischen „Dickbrettbohrerfach“ des Ingenieurstudiums. Edited by Oliver Romberg. 4., aktualisierte Auflage. Wiesbaden: Vieweg+Teubner.

A chapter in an edited book

Goyal, Parul, and Peter H. Hwang. 2007. Septal and Turbinate Surgery. In Rhinologic and Sleep Apnea Surgical Techniques, ed. Stilanos E. Kountakis and Metin Önerci, 49–59. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Proceedings of the Zoological Society.

Blog post

Andrew, Elise. 2015. Philae Phones Home – But The Mission Is About To Get Riskier. IFLScience. IFLScience. June 15.

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. 1993. Air Traffic Control: Improvements Needed In FAA’s Management of Acquisitions. T-RCED-93-36. 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

Janice, Josephine. 2017. Preschoolers’ Prosocial Responding to Social Others’ Distress. Doctoral dissertation, Lafayette, LA: University of Louisiana.

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

Billard, Mary. 2011. In Schools, Yoga Without the Spiritual. New York Times, October 9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moore 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Moore 2001; Oh and Olefsky 2010).

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

Two authors: (Oh and Olefsky 2010)
Three or more authors: (Gilbert et al. 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Proceedings of the Zoological Society
Abbreviation	Proc. Zool. Soc.
ISSN (print)	0373-5893
ISSN (online)	0974-6919
Scope