How to format your references using the ZooKeys citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ZooKeys. 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

Mahadevan MS (2010) Genetics. Exposing a DUX tale. Science (New York, N.Y.) 329: 1607–1608.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhou Z, Zhang F (2004) A precocial avian embryo from the Lower Cretaceous of China. Science (New York, N.Y.) 306: 653.

A journal article with 3 authors

Smallman HS, MacLeod DI, Doyle P (2001) Vision. Realignment of cones after cataract removal. Nature 412: 604–605.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Taga A, Nordstrom L, James P, Johansson B, Eriksson O (2000) Non-collinear states in magnetic sensors. Nature 406: 280–282.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hopkins BR (2009) Starting and Managing a Nonprofit Organization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Atallah M, Li X-Y, Zhu B (Eds) (2011) 6681 Frontiers in Algorithmics and Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management: Joint International Conference, FAW-AAIM 2011, Jinhua, China, May 28-31, 2011. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, XIII, 390 p. 85 illus., 20 illus. in color pp.

A chapter in an edited book

Jackson T, Salamat B, Homescu A, Manivannan K, Wagner G, Gal A, Brunthaler S, Wimmer C, Franz M (2011) Compiler-Generated Software Diversity. In: Jajodia S, Ghosh AK, Swarup V, Wang C, Wang XS (Eds), Moving Target Defense: Creating Asymmetric Uncertainty for Cyber Threats. Advances in Information Security. Springer, New York, NY, 77–98.

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 ZooKeys.

Blog post

Hale T (2015) Bizarre Photo Appears To Show Snake EATING Its Way Out Of Another Snake. 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 (1989) Proactive Management of FAA’s Security Program Needed. 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

Schenkelberg V (2010) Cultural competence training: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach

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

Vecsey G (2010) Education of a Point Guard Comes Full Circle. New York Times: B18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mahadevan 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Zhou and Zhang 2004, Mahadevan 2010).

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

Two authors: (Zhou and Zhang 2004)
Three or more authors: (Taga et al. 2000)

About the journal

Full journal title	ZooKeys
Abbreviation	Zookeys
ISSN (print)	1313-2989
ISSN (online)	1313-2970
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics