How to format your references using the Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology. 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

Perutz, R.N., 2008. Chemistry. A catalytic foothold for fluorocarbon reactions. Science 321, 1168–1169.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xavier, K.B., Bassler, B.L., 2005. Interference with AI-2-mediated bacterial cell-cell communication. Nature 437, 750–753.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bobrov, K., Mayne, A.J., Dujardin, G., 2001. Atomic-scale imaging of insulating diamond through resonant electron injection. Nature 413, 616–619.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Coull, J.A.M., Beggs, S., Boudreau, D., Boivin, D., Tsuda, M., Inoue, K., Gravel, C., Salter, M.W., De Koninck, Y., 2005. BDNF from microglia causes the shift in neuronal anion gradient underlying neuropathic pain. Nature 438, 1017–1021.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chiasson, A.D., 2016. Geothermal Heat Pump and Heat Engine Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Bonnick, S.L., 2013. Bone Densitometry for Technologists, 3rd ed. 2013. ed. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Leonard, A., Masson, M., Mitchell, T., Moss, J.M., Ufford, M., 2012. SQL Server Source Patterns, in: Masson, M., Mitchell, T., Moss, J.M., Ufford, M. (Eds.), SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns. Apress, Berkeley, CA, pp. 87–99.

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 Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. First Large Scale Solar Power To Be Built In China’s Gobi Desert [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/first-large-scale-solar-power-be-built-chinas-gobi-desert/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1990. Children’s Issues: A Decade of GAO Reports and Recent Activities (No. HRD-90-162). 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

Ramotar-John, B.P., 2014. Supplementing soybean meal with Camelina (Camelina sativa) in tilapia diets and optimizing commercial tilapia diets for use in intensive systems in the Western region of the United States (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, 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

Stack, L., Schweber, N., 2015. 2 Shot by Undercover New York City Officer in Westchester. New York Times A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Perutz, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Perutz, 2008; Xavier and Bassler, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Xavier and Bassler, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Coull et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Zoologischer Anzeiger - A Journal of Comparative Zoology
Abbreviation	Zool. Anz.
ISSN (print)	0044-5231
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology