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. Smaglik P. Battling the brain drain. Nature. 2002;415:3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Darios F, Davletov B. Omega-3 and omega-6 fatty acids stimulate cell membrane expansion by acting on syntaxin 3. Nature. 2006;440:813–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bragg AE, Cavanagh MC, Schwartz BJ. Linear response breakdown in solvation dynamics induced by atomic electron-transfer reactions. Science. 2008;321:1817–22.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wang XQ, Ullah H, Jones AM, Assmann SM. G protein regulation of ion channels and abscisic acid signaling in Arabidopsis guard cells. Science. 2001;292:2070–2.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Williamson T. Identity and Discrimination. The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

1. Carr BI, Steel J, editors. Psychological Aspects of Cancer. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Economopoulos KJ. The Role of Femoroacetabular Impingement in the Etiology of Athletic Pubalgia and Sports Hernias. In: Diduch DR, Brunt LM, editors. Sports Hernia and Athletic Pubalgia: Diagnosis and Treatment. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2014. p. 55–65.

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. Taub B. Edible Silk Coating Stops Fruit And Veg Going Moldy [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/edible-silk-coating-stops-fruit-and-veg-going-mouldy/

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. Criteria Needed for Measuring Technical Assistance Results and Contractor Performance. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1971 Oct. Report No.: B-160789.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Dinneny PN. End of August [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Paulson M. Spacey Apologizes After Accusation of Misconduct. New York Times. 2017 Oct 30;A10.

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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