How to format your references using the Acta Theriologica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Theriologica. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Goodman S (2002) Geneticist takes top job at museum. Nature 415:351

A journal article with 2 authors

Venitt S, Phillips DH (2012) Philip D. Lawley (1927-2011). Nature 482:36

A journal article with 3 authors

Braunschweig H, Radacki K, Schneider A (2010) Oxoboryl complexes: boron-oxygen triple bonds stabilized in the coordination sphere of platinum. Science 328:345–347

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Zou Z, Ye J, Sayama K, Arakawa H (2001) Direct splitting of water under visible light irradiation with an oxide semiconductor photocatalyst. Nature 414:625–627

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heuer A (2012) Der perfekte Tipp. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany

An edited book

Lombaerde P de (ed) (2007) Multilateralism, Regionalism and Bilateralism in Trade and Investment: 2006 World Report on Regional Integration. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Remuß V, Deeg C, Musial M, et al (2007) Autonomous Helicopters. In: Ollero A, Maza I (eds) Multiple Heterogeneous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 111–146

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 Acta Theriologica.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Louisiana Teachers Are Using The Bible in Science Class. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Challenge: FAA Continues to Make Important Strides, But Vulnerabilities Remain. 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

Dutta A (2010) Systems optimization for mobility management. Doctoral dissertation, Columbia University

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

Rothenberg B (2017) Back in Baltimore, Anthony Decides to Speak, but Doesn’t Say Much. New York Times B13

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goodman 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Goodman 2002; Venitt and Phillips 2012).

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

Two authors: (Venitt and Phillips 2012)
Three or more authors: (Zou et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Theriologica
ISSN (print)	0001-7051
ISSN (online)	2190-3743
Scope