We recommend the following formats for citing ZFIN in publications:

1. For a general reference to the database:

Sprague, J., L. Bayraktaroglu, D. Clements, T. Conlin, D. Fashena, K. Frazer, M. Haendel, D. Howe, P. Mani, S. Ramachandran, K. Schaper, E. Segerdell, P. Song, B. Sprunger, S. Taylor, C. Van Slyke and M. Westerfield. (2006) The Zebrafish Information Network: the zebrafish model organism database. Nucl. Acids Res. 34, D581-D585.

2. For citing a specific entry in ZFIN:

[Type of] data for this paper were retrieved from the Zebrafish Information Network (ZFIN), University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403-5274; World Wide Web URL: http://zfin.org/; [the date you retrieved the data cited].