How to format your references using the Zoosystema citation style

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

Jungmann K.P. 2015. — Particle physics: Matter and antimatter scrutinized. Nature 524 (7564): 168–169

A journal article with 2 authors

Rogers R.D. & Seddon K.R. 2003. — Chemistry. Ionic liquids--solvents of the future? Science (New York, N.Y.) 302 (5646): 792–793

A journal article with 3 authors

Sturm M., Racine C. & Tape K. 2001. — Climate change. Increasing shrub abundance in the Arctic. Nature 411 (6837): 546–547

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ma D., Zerangue N., Lin Y.F., Collins A., Yu M., Jan Y.N. & Jan L.Y. 2001. — Role of ER export signals in controlling surface potassium channel numbers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 291 (5502): 316–319

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eisner H. 2005. — Managing Complex Systems. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ulivi P. 2007. — Robotic Exploration of the Solar System: Part 1: The Golden Age 1957–1982, in Harland D.M. (ed.). New York, NY, Praxis. LX, 536 p p. (Springer Praxis Books).

A chapter in an edited book

Simovici D.A. & Djeraba C. 2008. — Partially Ordered Sets, in Djeraba C. (ed.), Mathematical Tools for Data Mining: Set Theory, Partial Orders, Combinatorics. London, Springer. p. 129–172.

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 Zoosystema.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2014. — Why Does Chilli Burn, And Why Does Milk Help Soothe The Pain?Available from https://www.iflscience.com/brain/why-does-chilli-burn-and-why-does-milk-help-soothe-pain/ [accessed 30 October 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 1973. — Certain Weaknesses in the Administration of the Neighborhood Youth Corps Out-of-School Project in Cleveland, Ohio N^o089487. 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

Lee K.S. 2008. — Towards an improved baton technique: The application and modification of conducting gestures drawn from the methods of Rudolf, Green and Saitö for enhanced performance of orchestral interpretations Doctoral dissertation. Tucson, AZ, University of Arizona.

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

Itzkoff D., Bai M., Goldstein J., Spitznagel E., Hodgman J., Leff A., Rushfield R., Veis G., Glaser E., Skurnick L., Hanel M., Newton M., Silcoff M., Zimmerman E., Kelly J., Shortz W., Cowe T. & Carroll D. 2012. — The One-Page Magazine. New York Times: MM11

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jungmann 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Rogers & Seddon 2003; Jungmann 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rogers & Seddon 2003)
Three or more authors: (Ma et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Zoosystema
ISSN (print)	1280-9551
ISSN (online)	1638-9387
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