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

Miller JS (2007) Obituary: Donald E. Osterbrock (1924-2007). Nature 446:870

A journal article with 2 authors

Fedo CM, Whitehouse MJ (2002) Metasomatic origin of quartz-pyroxene rock, Akilia, Greenland, and implications for Earth’s earliest life. Science 296:1448–1452

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmidt MW, Vautravers MJ, Spero HJ (2006) Rapid subtropical North Atlantic salinity oscillations across Dansgaard-Oeschger cycles. Nature 443:561–564

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hoppe H-G, Gocke K, Koppe R, Begler C (2002) Bacterial growth and primary production along a north-south transect of the Atlantic Ocean. Nature 416:168–171

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Obayya S, Hameed MFO, Areed NFF (2016) Computational Liquid Crystal Photonics. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Stephens M (2010) Design Driven Testing: Test Smarter, Not Harder. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Vande Wouwer A, Saucez P, Vilas C (2014) Finite Elements and Spectral Methods. In: Saucez P, Vilas C (eds) Simulation of ODE/PDE Models with MATLAB®, OCTAVE and SCILAB: Scientific and Engineering Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 203–283

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

Fang J (2014) Why Monstrously Large Insects And Spiders Don’t Exist. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-monstrously-large-insects-and-spiders-dont-exist/. 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 (2009) Applying Agreed-Upon Procedures: Fiscal Year 2009 Airport and Airway Trust Fund Excise Taxes. 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

Mauger GS (2008) Synoptic sensitivities of subtropical clouds: Separating aerosol effects from meteorology. Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego

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

Williams J (2017) Podcast Therapy. New York Times BR4

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Miller 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Fedo and Whitehouse 2002; Miller 2007).

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

Two authors: (Fedo and Whitehouse 2002)
Three or more authors: (Hoppe et al. 2002)

About the journal

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