How to format your references using the Zoology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for 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	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

Wood, J., 2005. Obituary: Alastair Cameron (1925-2005). Nature 438, 752.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lysenko, V., Varduny, T., 2013. Anthocyanin-dependent anoxygenic photosynthesis in coloured flower petals? Sci. Rep. 3, 3373.

A journal article with 3 authors

Maeda, H., Norum, D.V.L., Gallagher, T.F., 2005. Microwave manipulation of an atomic electron in a classical orbit. Science 307, 1757–1760.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Han, Y., Shokef, Y., Alsayed, A.M., Yunker, P., Lubensky, T.C., Yodh, A.G., 2008. Geometric frustration in buckled colloidal monolayers. Nature 456, 898–903.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Richards, A., Dafydd, H., 2014. Key Notes on Plastic Surgery. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Manuti, A., Palma, P.D. de (Eds.), 2016. The Social Organization: Managing Human Capital through Social Media. Palgrave Macmillan UK, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Roychowdhury, R., Tah, J., 2013. Mutagenesis—A Potential Approach for Crop Improvement, in: Hakeem, K.R., Ahmad, P., Ozturk, M. (Eds.), Crop Improvement: New Approaches and Modern Techniques. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 149–187.

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 Zoology.

Blog post

Hamilton, K., 2016. Can Monkeys Have Autism? The Answer Could Help Us Understand What Causes The Condition [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/can-monkeys-have-autism-the-answer-could-help-us-understand-what-causes-the-condition/ (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. Medicare Computer Systems: Year 2000 Challenges Put Benefits and Services in Jeopardy (No. AIMD-98-284). 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

Estrin, E.M., 2012. Individual Doubles: A Look at Twinship and Attachment Theory (Doctoral dissertation). Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Billard, M., 2010. Scouting Report. New York Times E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wood, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Lysenko and Varduny, 2013; Wood, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Lysenko and Varduny, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Han et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Zoology
Abbreviation	Zoology (Jena)
ISSN (print)	0944-2006
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology