How to format your references using the Zoologischer Anzeiger citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Zoologischer Anzeiger. 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	Download the output style file
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

Knight, R., 2015. Why microbiome treatments could pay off soon. Nature 518, S5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zaher, H.S., Green, R., 2009. Quality control by the ribosome following peptide bond formation. Nature 457, 161–166.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shoemaker, C.J., Eyler, D.E., Green, R., 2010. Dom34:Hbs1 promotes subunit dissociation and peptidyl-tRNA drop-off to initiate no-go decay. Science 330, 369–372.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zaric, S., Ostojic, G.N., Kono, J., Shaver, J., Moore, V.C., Strano, M.S., Hauge, R.H., Smalley, R.E., Wei, X., 2004. Optical signatures of the Aharonov-Bohm phase in single-walled carbon nanotubes. Science 304, 1129–1131.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wells, R., 2004. Global Credit Management. John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Thomas, D. (Ed.), 2006. ECOOP 2006 – Object-Oriented Programming: 20th European Conference, Nantes, France, July 3-7, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Morandi, C., Rolando, A., Di Vita, S., 2016. Looking at the Future?, in: Rolando, A., Di Vita, S. (Eds.), From Smart City to Smart Region: Digital Services for an Internet of Places, SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 93–103.

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.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Let The People Decide New Place Names On Mercury And Pluto [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/let-people-decide-new-place-names-mercury-and-pluto/ (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, 2015. Indian Affairs: Preliminary Results Show Continued Challenges to the Oversight and Support of Education Facilities (No. GAO-15-389T). 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

Binney, I., 2014. Registered Nurses’ Perceptions of Work Engagement and Turnover Intentions in a Long-Term Care Facility: A Case Study (Doctoral dissertation). Northcentral University, Scottsdale, 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

Murphy, M.J.O., 2016. 130 Years Ago: ‘War and Peace’ Finally Published in English. New York Times C29.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Knight, 2015; Zaher and Green, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Zaher and Green, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Zaric et al., 2004)

About the journal

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