How to format your references using the Raffles Bulletin of Zoology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Raffles Bulletin of Zoology (RBZ). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Garrett BC (2004) Chemistry. Ions at the air/water interface. Science (New York, N.Y.), 303(5661): 1146–1147.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bada JL & Lazcano A (2002) Origin of life. Some like it hot, but not the first biomolecules. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5575): 1982–1983.

A journal article with 3 authors

Long MA, Jin DZ & Fee MS (2010) Support for a synaptic chain model of neuronal sequence generation. Nature, 468(7322): 394–399.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bishop JKB, Wood TJ, Davis RE & Sherman JT (2004) Robotic observations of enhanced carbon biomass and export at 55 degrees during SOFeX. Science (New York, N.Y.), 304(5669): 417–420.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Drake PP & Fabozzi FJ (2010) The Basics of Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bhangal S (2006) Foundation Flash 8. (K. Besley, ed.). Apress, Berkeley, CA, XXIV, 400 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Arora R, Brun CMC & Azzalin CM (2011) TERRA: Long Noncoding RNA at Eukaryotic Telomeres. In: D. Ugarkovic (ed.), Long Non-Coding RNAs. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 65–94.

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 Raffles Bulletin of Zoology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015, October 26) Physicists Demonstrate ‘Weeping Angel’ Effect. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/physicists-demonstrate-weeping-angel-effect/. (Accessed 30 October 2018).

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 (1976) Analysis of Travel Activities of Certain Regulatory Agency Commissioners During 1971-75. No. CED-76-155. 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

Williamson CL (2012) Hispanic female undergraduates perception of nursing as a career choice: A phenomenological study. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Feeney K (2009, March 22) An Empire’s New Outpost. New York Times, p. NJ9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Garrett, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Bada & Lazcano, 2002; Garrett, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Bada & Lazcano, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Bishop et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Raffles Bulletin of Zoology
ISSN (print)	0217-2445
ISSN (online)	2345-7600
Scope