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

Friedlander M (2012) Physics: A century of cosmic rays. Nature 483:400–401

A journal article with 2 authors

Hashizume K, Chaussidon M (2005) A non-terrestrial 16O-rich isotopic composition for the protosolar nebula. Nature 434:619–622

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee SH, Oe T, Blair IA (2001) Vitamin C-induced decomposition of lipid hydroperoxides to endogenous genotoxins. Science 292:2083–2086

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Osuna CE, Lim S-Y, Kublin JL, et al (2018) Evidence that CD32a does not mark the HIV-1 latent reservoir. Nature 561:E20–E28

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kizer G (2013) Digital Microwave Communication. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gilmore WJ (2006) Beginning PHP and PostgreSQL 8: From Novice to Professional. Apress, Berkeley, CA

A chapter in an edited book

Desai S, Harrison B (2010) Direct-Writing of Biomedia for Drug Delivery and Tissue Regeneration. In: Narayan R, Boland T, Lee Y-S (eds) Printed Biomaterials: Novel Processing and Modeling Techniques for Medicine and Surgery. Springer, New York, NY, pp 71–89

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) Tomb of Ancient, Unknown Queen Discovered In Egypt. 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 (2012) Department of Homeland Security: Oversight and Coordination of Research and Development Should Be Strengthened. 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

Liao W (2010) The epitope specificity of the human anti-Candida albicans antibody M1g1. 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

Goldstein J (2014) Police Study Use of Force; May Issue More Tasers. New York Times A18

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Friedlander 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Hashizume and Chaussidon 2005; Friedlander 2012).

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

Two authors: (Hashizume and Chaussidon 2005)
Three or more authors: (Osuna et al. 2018)

About the journal

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