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

Fisk, D., 2012. The Urban Challenge. Science 336, 1396–1397.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bendor, D., Wang, X., 2005. The neuronal representation of pitch in primate auditory cortex. Nature 436, 1161–1165.

A journal article with 3 authors

Matsumoto, M., Saito, S., Ohmine, I., 2002. Molecular dynamics simulation of the ice nucleation and growth process leading to water freezing. Nature 416, 409–413.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Purnell, M.A., Bell, M.A., Baines, D.C., Hart, P.J.B., Travis, M.P., 2007. Correlated evolution and dietary change in fossil stickleback. Science 317, 1887.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Birke, D., 2013. Social Networks and their Economics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Tonon, G. (Ed.), 2016. Indicators of Quality of Life in Latin America, 1st ed. 2016. ed, Social Indicators Research Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Walsh, M.E., Theodorakakis, M.D., Backe, S., 2016. Redesigning a Core Function of Schools: A Systemic, Evidence-Based Approach to Student Support, in: Lawson, H.A., van Veen, D. (Eds.), Developing Community Schools, Community Learning Centers, Extended-Service Schools and Multi-Service Schools: International Exemplars for Practice, Policy and Research. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 127–147.

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., 2014. The Comet That Outgrew The Sun [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/comet-outgrew-sun/ (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, 2006. Lessons Learned for Protecting and Educating Children after the Gulf Coast Hurricanes (No. GAO-06-680R). 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

McClurg, A.D., 2013. A phenomenological study of Baby Boomer retirement— Expectations, results, and implications (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, 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

Pilon, M., 2012. I.O.C. Rejects ’72 Remembrance. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fisk, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Bendor and Wang, 2005; Fisk, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Bendor and Wang, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Purnell et al., 2007)

About the journal

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