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

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

Keimer B. 2001. Physics. Quasi-particles survive--for now. Science. 292(5521):1498–1499.

A journal article with 2 authors

Costache MV, Valenzuela SO. 2010. Experimental spin ratchet. Science. 330(6011):1645–1648.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang P-Y, Weng J, Anderson RGW. 2005. OSBP is a cholesterol-regulated scaffolding protein in control of ERK 1/2 activation. Science. 307(5714):1472–1476.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Wimberly BT, Brodersen DE, Clemons WM Jr, Morgan-Warren RJ, Carter AP, Vonrhein C, Hartsch T, Ramakrishnan V. 2000. Structure of the 30S ribosomal subunit. Nature. 407(6802):327–339.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li RC-H. 2008. RF Circuit Design. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Cao Z. 2008. Low-Power High-Speed ADCs for Nanometer CMOS Integration. Yan S, editor. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands.

A chapter in an edited book

Stampar SN, Maronna MM, Kitahara MV, Reimer JD, Beneti JS, Morandini AC. 2016. Ceriantharia in Current Systematics: Life Cycles, Morphology and Genetics. In: Goffredo S, Dubinsky Z, editors. The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future: The world of Medusa and her sisters. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 61–72.

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 the Royal Society of New Zealand.

Blog post

Andrew D. 2015. Drone Captures Breathtaking Footage Inside The Worlds Largest Cave. 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. 2017. Highway Bridges: Major Projects Present Challenges for States, but Strategies Exist to Overcome Them. 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

Kapatsinski V. 2009. The architecture of grammar in artificial grammar learning: Formal biases in the acquisition of morphophonology and the nature of the learning task [Doctoral dissertation]. Bloomington, IN: Indiana 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

Crow K. 2001. The Future Comes to a Place That Hasn’t Always Had One. New York Times.:149.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Keimer 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Keimer 2001; Costache and Valenzuela 2010).

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

Two authors: (Costache and Valenzuela 2010)
Three or more authors: (Wimberly et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand
ISSN (print)	0303-6758
ISSN (online)	1175-8899
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