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

Baselga J (2006) Targeting tyrosine kinases in cancer: the second wave. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5777): 1175–1178.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sekkal W & Zaoui A (2013) Nanoscale analysis of the morphology and surface stability of calcium carbonate polymorphs. Scientific Reports, 3: 1587.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tibi R, Wiens DA & Inoue H (2003) Remote triggering of deep earthquakes in the 2002 Tonga sequences. Nature, 424(6951): 921–925.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Forsgren E, Amundsen T, Borg AA & Bjelvenmark J (2004) Unusually dynamic sex roles in a fish. Nature, 429(6991): 551–554.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Niles JD (2016) Old English Literature. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Coates ARM (ed.) (2012) Antibiotic Resistance. Handbook of Experimental Pharmacology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, Volume 211, VIII, 192 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Adams JC, Brainerd WS, Hendrickson RA, Maine RE, Martin JT & Smith BT (2009) Declarations. In: W. S. Brainerd, R. A. Hendrickson, R. E. Maine, J. T. Martin, & B. T. Smith (eds.), The Fortran 2003 Handbook: The Complete Syntax, Features and Procedures. Springer, London, pp. 115–169.

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

Andrews R (2016, August 3) Men Cite Themselves Way More Than Women In Studies. IFLScience. IFLScience. (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 (1996) Medicaid Managed Care: Serving the Disabled Challenges State Programs. No. HEHS-96-136. 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

Ghafoori E (2014) Wavelet transform and neural network. 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

Rosenberg E & Surico J (2016, November 22) Beam Falls From a Crane, Killing 2 Workers in Queens. New York Times, p. A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Baselga, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Baselga, 2006; Sekkal & Zaoui, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Sekkal & Zaoui, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Forsgren et al., 2004)

About the journal

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