How to format your references using the Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine. 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

1. Calvert P. Materials science. Printing cells. Science. 2007;318(5848):208–209.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kim BH, Kwon JW. Metal catalyst for low-temperature growth of controlled zinc oxide nanowires on arbitrary substrates. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4379.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Xia X-M, Zeng X, Lingle CJ. Multiple regulatory sites in large-conductance calcium-activated potassium channels. Nature. 2002;418(6900):880–884.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

1. Burgo TAL, Silva CA, Balestrin LBS, Galembeck F. Friction coefficient dependence on electrostatic tribocharging. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2384.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Rémy J-G, Letamendia C. Home Area Networks and IPTV. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Irie M, Yokoyama Y, Seki T (eds.). New Frontiers in Photochromism. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2013. VIII, 298 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Oki K, Hoshino H, Suzuki N. Epidemiology of Moyamoya Disease. In: Cho B-K, Tominaga T (eds.). Moyamoya Disease Update. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2010. p. 29–34.

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 Zoo and Wildlife Medicine.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Why we need volunteers for the first human Ebola trials [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-we-need-volunteers-first-human-ebola-trials/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Federal Procurements: Comments on Proposed Legislation Affecting Federal Procurements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Jun. Report No.: T-OGC-92-3.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Katavic I. Corporate social responsibility and sustainable competitive advantage: A case study of the cement industry [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 2014.

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

1. Belcher D. Yuri Lyubimov, Experimental Director of the Russian Stage, Is Dead at 97. New York Times. 2014;A24.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^2,4.
This sentence cites four references ^3,5,7,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Zoo and Wildlife Medicine
Abbreviation	J. Zoo Wildl. Med.
ISSN (print)	1042-7260
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology General Medicine General Veterinary