How to format your references using the Animal Cells and Systems citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Animal Cells and Systems. 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	Download the output style file
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

Trevan T. 2015. Biological research: Rethink biosafety. Nature. 527(7577):155–158.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trachenko K, Brazhkin VV. 2013. Duality of liquids. Sci Rep. 3:2188.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kent A, Massar S, Silman J. 2014. Secure and robust transmission and verification of unknown quantum states in Minkowski space. Sci Rep. 4:3901.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Chao W, Harteneck BD, Liddle JA, Anderson EH, Attwood DT. 2005. Soft X-ray microscopy at a spatial resolution better than 15 nm. Nature. 435(7046):1210–1213.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gonzalez R, Qi F, Huang B. 2016. Process Control System Fault Diagnosis: A Bayesian Approach. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Karner C, Weicht B, editors. 2016. The Commonalities of Global Crises: Markets, Communities and Nostalgia. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK.

A chapter in an edited book

Adderley R, Badii A, Wu C. 2008. The Automatic Identification and Prioritisation of Criminal Networks from Police Crime Data. In: Ortiz-Arroyo D, Larsen HL, Zeng DD, Hicks D, Wagner G, editors. Intelligence and Security Informatics: First European Conference, EuroISI 2008, Esbjerg, Denmark, December 3-5, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 5–14.

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 Cells and Systems.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2013. Milky Way galaxy has four arms, not two. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/milky-way-galaxy-has-four-arms-not-two/

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. 1980. Incorporation of Contract Clause Into Proposed FPR Temporary Regulation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Winter JM. 2010. Investigating the biosynthesis of halogenated meroterpenoid natural products from marine actinomycetes [Doctoral dissertation]. La Jolla, CA: 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

Jenks S. 2017. Troubled Vision. New York Times.:F7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Trevan 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Trachenko and Brazhkin 2013; Trevan 2015).

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

Two authors: (Trachenko and Brazhkin 2013)
Three or more authors: (Chao et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Cells and Systems
Abbreviation	Animal Cells Syst. (Seoul)
ISSN (print)	1976-8354
ISSN (online)	2151-2485
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology