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 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

Kondro W (2000) CANADIAN UNIVERSITIES: Funding of 2000 Slots Sets Off Musical Chairs. Science (New York, N.Y.), 288(5474): 2112.

A journal article with 2 authors

Czakó G & Bowman JM (2011) Dynamics of the reaction of methane with chlorine atom on an accurate potential energy surface. Science (New York, N.Y.), 334(6054): 343–346.

A journal article with 3 authors

Van der Burg E, Cass J & Alais D (2014) Window of audio-visual simultaneity is unaffected by spatio-temporal visual clutter. Scientific Reports, 4: 5098.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hughes WOH, Oldroyd BP, Beekman M & Ratnieks FLW (2008) Ancestral monogamy shows kin selection is key to the evolution of eusociality. Science (New York, N.Y.), 320(5880): 1213–1216.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Abdel-aleem S (2010) The Design and Management of Medical Device clinical Trials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Dignum FPM, Eijk RM van & Flores R (eds.) (2006) Agent Communication II: International Workshops on Agent Communication, AC 2005 and AC 2006, Utrecht, Netherlands, July 25, 2005, and Hakodate, Japan, May 9, 2006, Selected and Revised Papers. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Volume 3859, XII, 303 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Blischke WR, Rezaul Karim M & Prabhakar Murthy DN (2011) Warranty Claims Data. In: M. R. Karim & D. N. P. Murthy (eds.), Warranty Data Collection and Analysis. Springer, London, pp. 61–77.

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

Hale T (2016, June 1) The World Reacts To The Shooting Of Harambe The Gorilla. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/world-reacts-shooting-harambe-gorilla/. (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 (1977) Responsibilities, Actions, and Coordination of Federal Agencies in International Telecommunications Services. No. CED-77-132. 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

Hannington RL (2011) Power and display in the court music of Augustus the Strong: The influences affecting the composition of Johann David Heinichens’s sinfonias. Doctoral dissertation. 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

Kolomatsky M (2017, June 2) Top Degrees for Homeownership. New York Times, p. RE2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kondro, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kondro, 2000; Czakó & Bowman, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Czakó & Bowman, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Hughes et al., 2008)

About the journal

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