How to format your references using the Journal of New Zealand Grasslands citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of New Zealand Grasslands (JNZG). 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

Chemler SR. 2013. Chemistry. Copper’s contribution to amination catalysis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 341: 624–626.

A journal article with 2 authors

Winslow MM, Crabtree GR. 2005. Immunology. Decoding calcium signaling. Science (New York, N.Y.) 307: 56–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cai Y, Zhang G, Zhang Y-W. 2014. Layer-dependent band alignment and work function of few-layer phosphorene. Scientific reports 4: 6677.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Roe HG, Brown ME, Schaller EL, Bouchez AH, Trujillo CA. 2005. Geographic control of Titan’s mid-latitude clouds. Science (New York, N.Y.) 310: 477–479.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Meghouar H. 2016. Corporate Takeover Targets. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Anne KR. 2015. Acoustic Modeling for Emotion Recognition. Springer International Publishing, Cham, VII, 66 p. 24 illus., 17 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Rogova GL. 2016. Information Quality in Information Fusion and Decision Making with Applications to Crisis Management. In: Rogova G, Scott P Eds. Fusion Methodologies in Crisis Management: Higher Level Fusion and Decision Making. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 65–86.

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 New Zealand Grasslands.

Blog post

Hamilton K. 2016. Three Of Namibia’s Most Famous Lion Family Were Poisoned – Why? IFLScience. Retrieved 30 October 2018 from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/three-of-namibias-most-famous-lion-family-were-poisoned-why/.

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. 1981. Followup on Actions To Improve Coordination and Utilization of Human Resources Research and Development [Report FPCD-81-62]. 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

O’Byrne SM. 2008. Metabolic and pathological role of retinyl esters: The role of lecithin:retinol acyl transferase, (LRAT). Columbia University, New York, NY.

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

James S. 2017. Recalling the Plague Years.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chemler 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Winslow & Crabtree 2005, Chemler 2013).

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

Two authors: (Winslow & Crabtree 2005)
Three or more authors: (Roe et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of New Zealand Grasslands
ISSN (print)	2463-2872
ISSN (online)	2463-2880
Scope