How to format your references using the Australian Journal of Zoology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Australian Journal of 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Padyukov L (2010). Journal club. A human geneticist explores genetic diversity in Asia. Nature 464, 653.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pullum GK, Scholz BC (2001). More than words. Nature 413, 367.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hosoya T, Baccus SA, Meister M (2005). Dynamic predictive coding by the retina. Nature 436, 71–77.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mohammed OF, Pines D, Dreyer J, Pines E, Nibbering ETJ (2005). Sequential proton transfer through water bridges in acid-base reactions. Science (New York, N.Y.) 310, 83–86.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Singleton TW, Singleton AJ (2010). ‘Fraud Auditing and Forensic Accounting’. (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Chaki N (2014). ‘Exploring Image Binarization Techniques’ Eds SH Shaikh, K Saeed. (Springer India: New Delhi)

A chapter in an edited book

Kok LJJ, Poston K, Moore G (2011). Bombardier Aerospace FSW Demonstrator. In ‘ICAF 2011 Structural Integrity: Influence of Efficiency and Green Imperatives: Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the International Committee on Aeronautical Fatigue, Montreal, Canada, 1-3 June 2011’. (Ed J Komorowski.) pp. 73–81. (Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht)

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 Australian Journal of Zoology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J (2015). NASA Releases Stunning New Photos Of Mysterious Bright Spots On Ceres. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/nasa-releases-stunning-new-views-bright-spots-ceres/ [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). Drug Abuse Control Program Activities in Okinawa. B-164031(2). 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

Evans AM (2017). Long-Term Sustainability of Surgical Operational Improvements Post Consultancy: A Multiple Case Study Analysis. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University Scottsdale, 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

Shear MD, Steinhauer J, Flegenheimer M (2017). Sense of Crisis Deepens as Trump Defends F.B.I. Firing. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Padyukov 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Pullum and Scholz 2001; Padyukov 2010).

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

Two authors: (Pullum and Scholz 2001)
Three or more authors: (Mohammed et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Australian Journal of Zoology
Abbreviation	Aust. J. Zool.
ISSN (print)	0004-959X
ISSN (online)	1446-5698
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics