How to format your references using the ZooKeys citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ZooKeys. 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

Rosenberg AA (2007) Fishing for certainty. Nature 449: 989.

A journal article with 2 authors

Williams SR, Stuart GJ (2002) Dependence of EPSP efficacy on synapse location in neocortical pyramidal neurons. Science (New York, N.Y.) 295: 1907–1910.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schott D, Yanai I, Hunter CP (2014) Natural RNA interference directs a heritable response to the environment. Scientific reports 4: 7387.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Hajkova P, Ancelin K, Waldmann T, Lacoste N, Lange UC, Cesari F, Lee C, Almouzni G, Schneider R, Surani MA (2008) Chromatin dynamics during epigenetic reprogramming in the mouse germ line. Nature 452: 877–881.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Battu D (2014) New Telecom Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Emadzadeh AA (2011) Navigation in Space by X-ray Pulsars. Speyer JL (Ed.). Springer, New York, NY, XI, 118 p pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Fotakis D (2005) A Primal-Dual Algorithm for Online Non-uniform Facility Location. In: Bozanis P, Houstis EN (Eds), Advances in Informatics: 10th Panhellenic Conference on Informatics, PCI 2005, Volas, Greece, November 11-13, 2005. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 47–56.

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 ZooKeys.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) Mammal-Like Ancestors Were The First Venomous Beasties On Earth. IFLScience.

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 (1995) Federal Grants to New Jersey. 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

Wheeler TJ (2009) Efficient construction of accurate multiple alignments and large-scale phylogenies. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona

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

Holden S (2015) Binghamton Just Isn’t Hollywood. New York Times: C10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rosenberg 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Williams and Stuart 2002, Rosenberg 2007).

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

Two authors: (Williams and Stuart 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hajkova et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	ZooKeys
Abbreviation	Zookeys
ISSN (print)	1313-2989
ISSN (online)	1313-2970
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics