How to format your references using the Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales. 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 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

Crutzen, P. J. (2010), "Anthropocene man" Nature, 467, 7317, S10.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forcada, J., and Hoffman, J. I. (2014), "Climate change selects for heterozygosity in a declining fur seal population" Nature, 511, 7510, 462–465.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miles, M. A., Yeo, M., and Mauricio, I. L. (2009), "Genetics. Leishmania exploit sex" Science (New York, N.Y.), 324, 5924, 187–189.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ray, S. C., Soin, N., Makgato, T., Chuang, C. H., Pong, W. F., Roy, S. S., Ghosh, S. K., Strydom, A. M., and McLaughlin, J. A. (2014), "Graphene supported graphone/graphane bilayer nanostructure material for spintronics" Scientific reports, 4, 3862.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Greenspan, D. (2008), Numerical Solution of Ordinary Differential Equations, Weinheim, Germany, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Shi, D. (Ed.). (2009), NanoScience in Biomedicine, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Quastel, J., and Remenik, D. (2014), "Airy Processes and Variational Problems" in A. F. Ramírez, G. Ben Arous, P. A. Ferrari, C. M. Newman, V. Sidoravicius, and M. E. Vares (Eds.), Topics in Percolative and Disordered Systems, Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, New York, NY, Springer, 121–171.

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 Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales.

Blog post

Davis, J. (2015), "Muscle Engineered To Respond To Light" IFLScience, IFLScience, <https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/muscle-engineered-respond-light/> (Oct. 30, 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. (1977), Collection Efforts Not Keeping Pace With Growing Number of Defaulted Student Loans, 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

Moshfegh, N. (2014), "The multidimensional wellbeing assessment: Preliminary validation in an Iranian sample" Doctoral dissertation, Malibu, CA, Pepperdine University.

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

Pilon, M., Eder, S., and Krupnick, M. (2014), "In Death of L.I. High School Player, Perils of a Sport Reverberate" New York Times, B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crutzen 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Crutzen 2010; Forcada and Hoffman 2014).

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

Two authors: (Forcada and Hoffman 2014)
Three or more authors: (Ray et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal and Proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales
ISSN (print)	0035-9173
Scope