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

May R (2001) Risk and uncertainty. Nature 411:891

A journal article with 2 authors

Ban Y, Chen X (2014) Counter-diabatic driving for fast spin control in a two-electron double quantum dot. Sci Rep 4:6258

A journal article with 3 authors

Shubin NH, Daeschler EB, Jenkins FA Jr (2006) The pectoral fin of Tiktaalik roseae and the origin of the tetrapod limb. Nature 440:764–771

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Winkler K, Thalhammer G, Lang F, et al (2006) Repulsively bound atom pairs in an optical lattice. Nature 441:853–856

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Simon L, Ospina J (2015) Closed-Form Solutions for Drug Transport through Controlled-Release Devices in Two and Three Dimensions. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Simovska V, Mannix McNamara P (eds) (2015) Schools for Health and Sustainability: Theory, Research and Practice. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Hermanussen M (2016) Growth in Childhood and Puberty. In: Kumanov P, Agarwal A (eds) Puberty: Physiology and Abnormalities. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 65–76

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

Taub B (2016) Men Commit More Violent Crimes When They Are Surrounded By Women, Claims Study. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/men-commit-more-violent-crimes-when-they-are-surrounded-by-women-claims-study/. 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 (1993) Demand Distribution Rolodex Card. 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

Fouts J (2014) A mental health outreach program for adolescent gang members and at-risk youth: A grant writing project. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Kelly M (1992) THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Democrats; Clinton Accuses Bush of Dodging Responsibilities. New York Times A20

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (May 2001).
This sentence cites two references (May 2001; Ban and Chen 2014).

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

Two authors: (Ban and Chen 2014)
Three or more authors: (Winkler et al. 2006)

About the journal

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