How to format your references using the Zoomorphology citation style

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

Skands P (2014) Particle physics: The mass of a top. Nature 514:174–176

A journal article with 2 authors

Dobson DP, Brodholt JP (2005) Subducted banded iron formations as a source of ultralow-velocity zones at the core-mantle boundary. Nature 434:371–374

A journal article with 3 authors

Milly PCD, Dunne KA, Vecchia AV (2005) Global pattern of trends in streamflow and water availability in a changing climate. Nature 438:347–350

A journal article with 5 or more authors

McComb K, Moss C, Durant SM, et al (2001) Matriarchs as repositories of social knowledge in African elephants. Science 292:491–494

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vegh A (2010) Web Development with the Mac®. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA

An edited book

Duca G (ed) (2014) Management of Water Quality in Moldova. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Aspray W, Royer G, Ocepek MG (2014) American School Lunch Policy: A History. In: Royer G, Ocepek MG (eds) Formal and Informal Approaches to Food Policy. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 61–84

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 Zoomorphology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Gorgeous New Hubble Image Of Cosmic Butterfly Wings. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1987) ADP Acquisitions: OCC’s Procurement of Laser Printers is Proper but ADP Statutes Apply. 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

Hall KN (2010) Facilitating physically active identity development in older women. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona

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

Hodara S (2016) Depicting the Heavens With Paint, Pencil, Even Cocaine. New York Times WE9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Skands 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Dobson and Brodholt 2005; Skands 2014).

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

Two authors: (Dobson and Brodholt 2005)
Three or more authors: (McComb et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Zoomorphology
Abbreviation	Zoomorphology
ISSN (print)	0720-213X
ISSN (online)	1432-234X
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Developmental Biology