How to format your references using the Animal Biotelemetry citation style

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

1. Campbell CT. Physics. The active site in nanoparticle gold catalysis. Science. 2004;306:234–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Geissler PW, Okwaro F. Developing world: Discuss inequality. Nature. 2014;513:303.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Thompson RJ, Zhou N, MacVicar BA. Ischemia opens neuronal gap junction hemichannels. Science. 2006;312:924–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mayer L, Kazantzidis S, Madau P, Colpi M, Quinn T, Wadsley J. Rapid formation of supermassive black hole binaries in galaxy mergers with gas. Science. 2007;316:1874–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Stephanie Hammer. Architects of Electronic Trading. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Jarvis SA, Wright SA, Hammond SD, editors. High Performance Computing Systems. Performance Modeling, Benchmarking, and Simulation: 5th International Workshop, PMBS 2014, New Orleans, LA, USA, November 16, 2014. Revised Selected Papers. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Homburg C, Schäfer H, Schneider J. Price Policy: The Price Is Right. . In: Schäfer H, Schneider J, editors. Sales Excellence: Systematic Sales Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 61–81.

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 Animal Biotelemetry.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Genetic analysis reveals there are seven seperate spcies of African crocodiles [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2013 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/genetic-analysis-reveals-there-are-seven-seperate-spcies-african-crocodiles/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. TV Marti: Costs and Compliance With Broadcast Standards and International Agreements. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 May. Report No.: NSIAD-92-199.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Abedin G. Exploring the potential of art-based education for adolescents with learning disabilities: A case study of engagement in learning through the arts [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2010.

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

1. Saslow L. Working to Restore Help for AIDS Patients. New York Times. 2008 May 4;LI5.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Biotelemetry
ISSN (online)	2050-3385
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