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

Cairns, J., 2004. The usefulness of parody. Nature 428, 23.

A journal article with 2 authors

Deuss, A., Woodhouse, J., 2001. Seismic observations of splitting of the mid-transition zone discontinuity in Earth’s mantle. Science 294, 354–357.

A journal article with 3 authors

Keller, R.A., Fisk, M.R., White, W.M., 2000. Isotopic evidence for Late Cretaceous plume-ridge interaction at the Hawaiian hotspot. Nature 405, 673–676.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Roati, G., D’Errico, C., Fallani, L., Fattori, M., Fort, C., Zaccanti, M., Modugno, G., Modugno, M., Inguscio, M., 2008. Anderson localization of a non-interacting Bose-Einstein condensate. Nature 453, 895–898.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Youssef, H.A., 2015. Machining of Stainless Steels and Super Alloys. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Pei, C., 2015. China’s Outbound Foreign Direct Investment Promotion System, Research Series on the Chinese Dream and China’s Development Path. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Maruhn, J.A., Reinhard, P.-G., Suraud, E., 2010. Hartree–Fock, in: Reinhard, P.-G., Suraud, E. (Eds.), Simple Models of Many-Fermion Systems. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 117–141.

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

Fang, J., 2014. Renewables Now Produce 22 Percent of the World’s Electricity [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/renewables-now-produce-22-percent-worlds-electricity/ (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, 2000. Cooperative Research: Results of U.S.-Industry Partnership to Develop a New Generation of Vehicles (No. RCED-00-81). 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

Correa, L., 2015. Urban-rural differences in overweight and obese status among adolescents (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

Brantley, B., 2016. A Tempest in a Bourbon Bottle. New York Times C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cairns, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Cairns, 2004; Deuss and Woodhouse, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Deuss and Woodhouse, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Roati et al., 2008)

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