How to format your references using the Zoosystema citation style

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

Evans R.L. 2008. — Geochemistry. Carbon in charge. Science (New York, N.Y.) 322 (5906): 1338–1340

A journal article with 2 authors

Fier P.S. & Hartwig J.F. 2013. — Selective C-H fluorination of pyridines and diazines inspired by a classic amination reaction. Science (New York, N.Y.) 342 (6161): 956–960

A journal article with 3 authors

Farnan I., Cho H. & Weber W.J. 2007. — Quantification of actinide alpha-radiation damage in minerals and ceramics. Nature 445 (7124): 190–193

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Collettini C., Niemeijer A., Viti C. & Marone C. 2009. — Fault zone fabric and fault weakness. Nature 462 (7275): 907–910

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Taylor F.J. 2011. — Digital Filters. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Rong, C., Jaatun, M. G., Sandnes, F. E., Yang, L. T. & Ma, J. (Eds.) 2008. — Autonomic and Trusted Computing: 5th International Conference, ATC 2008, Oslo, Norway, June 23-25, 2008 ProceedingsVol. 5060. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. XV, 666 p p. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

A chapter in an edited book

Boztaş Ö., Karakoç F. & Çoban M. 2013. — Multidimensional Meet-in-the-Middle Attacks on Reduced-Round TWINE-128, in Avoine G. & Kara O. (eds.), Lightweight Cryptography for Security and Privacy: Second International Workshop, LightSec 2013, Gebze, Turkey, May 6-7, 2013, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. p. 55–67. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Zoosystema.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. — Unpicking the autism puzzle by linking empathy to rewardAvailable from [accessed 30 October 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 1972. — Identification of NASA Research and Development Programs Subject to Benefit-Cost Analysis N�B-176104. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Sahib S.S. 2010. — Numerical solutions of Maxwell’s equations in 1D, 2D, and 3D via the finite element method Doctoral dissertation. Long Beach, CA, 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

Lee L. 2013. — Looking for Love and Lobster Salad. New York Times: ST13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Evans 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Evans 2008; Fier & Hartwig 2013).

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

Two authors: (Fier & Hartwig 2013)
Three or more authors: (Collettini et al. 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Zoosystema
ISSN (print)	1280-9551
ISSN (online)	1638-9387
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