How to format your references using the Zebrafish citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Zebrafish (ZEB). 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

Foster I. 2020 computing: a two-way street to science’s future. Nature 2006;440(7083):419.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maser RS, DePinho RA. Connecting chromosomes, crisis, and cancer. Science 2002;297(5581):565–569.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pearson PN, Foster GL, Wade BS. Atmospheric carbon dioxide through the Eocene-Oligocene climate transition. Nature 2009;461(7267):1110–1113.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yakata S, Tanaka T, Kiseki K, et al. Wide range tuning of resonant frequency for a vortex core in a regular triangle magnet. Sci Rep 2013;3:3567.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thie PR, Keough GE. An Introduction to Linear Programming and Game Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2008.

An edited book

Scaioni M, (ed). Modern Technologies for Landslide Monitoring and Prediction. Springer Natural Hazards. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Costabello L. Error-Tolerant RDF Subgraph Matching for Adaptive Presentation of Linked Data on Mobile. In: The Semantic Web: Trends and Challenges: 11th International Conference, ESWC 2014, Anissaras, Crete, Greece, May 25-29, 2014. Proceedings. (Presutti V, d’Amato C, Gandon F, et al. eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2014; pp. 36–51.

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 Zebrafish.

Blog post

Carpineti A. Galaxies Lose A Third Of Their Mass When They Join A Group. IFLScience; 2017. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/galaxies-lose-a-third-of-their-mass-when-they-join-a-group/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. FCC’s Decision To Consolidate Licensing Division in Gettysburg, Pa. Was Made Without Adequate Analysis. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Savvas C. Hydroclimate Variability and Landuse Effects on Nutrient Export from Watersheds in the Mid-Atlantic United States. Doctoral dissertation. University of North Carolina: Chapel Hill, NC; 2010.

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

Herrman J. Who’s Too Young for an App? Musical.Ly Testing the Limits. New York Times 2016;B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Zebrafish
ISSN (print)	1545-8547
ISSN (online)	1557-8542
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