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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Experimental 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

Petronis A. 2010. Epigenetics as a unifying principle in the aetiology of complex traits and diseases. Nature 465:721–727.

A journal article with 2 authors

Patel MR, Shen K. 2009. RSY-1 is a local inhibitor of presynaptic assembly in C. elegans. Science 323:1500–1503.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kusumbe AP, Ramasamy SK, Adams RH. 2014. Coupling of angiogenesis and osteogenesis by a specific vessel subtype in bone. Nature 507:323–328.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Tanzilli S, Tittel W, Halder M, Alibart O, Baldi P, Gisin N, Zbinden H. 2005. A photonic quantum information interface. Nature 437:116–120.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McGee G. 2012. Bioethics for beginners. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Derksen H. 2015. Computational Invariant Theory. 2nd ed. 2015. (Kemper G, editor.). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Giddings JM, Williams WM, Solomon KR, Giesy JP. 2014. Risks to Aquatic Organisms from Use of Chlorpyrifos in the United States. In: Giesy JP, Solomon KR, editors. Ecological Risk Assessment for Chlorpyrifos in Terrestrial and Aquatic Systems in the United States. Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology. Cham: Springer International Publishing. p 119–162.

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 of Experimental Zoology.

Blog post

Evans K. 2016. 7 Qualities In Women That Men Find Attractive, According To Science. IFLScience.

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. 1995. Electromagnetic Interference with Medical Devices. 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

Lee BK. 2015. Tracking of truck flows for drayage efficiency analysis.

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

Franaszek A. 2017. Why Czeslaw Milosz still matters. New York Times:0.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Petronis, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Patel and Shen, 2009; Petronis, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Patel and Shen, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Tanzilli et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Experimental Zoology
Abbreviation	J. Exp. Zool. A Ecol. Genet. Physiol.
ISSN (print)	1932-5223
ISSN (online)	1932-5231
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics Molecular Biology Physiology