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

Heller, S.B., 2014. Summer jobs reduce violence among disadvantaged youth. Science 346, 1219–1223.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cuffey, K.M., Vimeux, F., 2001. Covariation of carbon dioxide and temperature from the Vostok ice core after deuterium-excess correction. Nature 412, 523–527.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shinde, D.B., Majumder, M., Pillai, V.K., 2014. Counter-ion dependent, longitudinal unzipping of multi-walled carbon nanotubes to highly conductive and transparent graphene nanoribbons. Sci. Rep. 4, 4363.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lee, J.S., Lee, Y.-J., Tae, E.L., Park, Y.S., Yoon, K.B., 2003. Synthesis of zeolite as ordered multicrystal arrays. Science 301, 818–821.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lalanne, C., 2014. Specification Development. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Zelinka, I., Duy, V.H., Cha, J. (Eds.), 2014. AETA 2013: Recent Advances in Electrical Engineering and Related Sciences, Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Villena, J.F., Schilders, W.H.A., Miguel Silveira, L., 2009. Parametric Structure-Preserving Model Order Reduction, in: Hasler, P., Mooney, V., Reis, R. (Eds.), VLSI-SoC: Advanced Topics on Systems on a Chip: A Selection of Extended Versions of the Best Papers of the Fourteenth International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration of System on Chip (VLSI-SoC2007), October 15-17, 2007, Atlanta, USA, IFIP – The International Federation for Information Processing. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 1–20.

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, D., 2016. How To Stop A Zombie Apocalypse – With Science [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1998. District of Columbia Public Schools: Status of Fiscal Year 1998 Roof Projects (No. T-AIMD-98-219). 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

Sahib, S.S., 2010. Numerical solutions of Maxwell’s equations in 1D, 2D, and 3D via the finite element method (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

St. John Kelly, E., 1998. The Mysterious Tattoo Hoax. New York Times 148.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Heller, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Cuffey and Vimeux, 2001; Heller, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Cuffey and Vimeux, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Lee et al., 2003)

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