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

Bhatia M. 2010. Developmental biology. Microenvironment mimicry. Science. 329(5995):1024–1025.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ibn-Elhaj M, Schadt M. 2001. Optical polymer thin films with isotropic and anisotropic nano-corrugated surface topologies. Nature. 410(6830):796–799.

A journal article with 3 authors

Planutis K, Planutiene M, Holcombe RF. 2014. A novel signaling pathway regulates colon cancer angiogenesis through Norrin. Sci Rep. 4:5630.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Zhao J, Qian Y, Bi H-Y, Coltheart M. 2014. The visual magnocellular-dorsal dysfunction in Chinese children with developmental dyslexia impedes Chinese character recognition. Sci Rep. 4:7068.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hersent O, Petit J-P, Gurle D. 2005. Beyond VoIP Protocols. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Chmura A. 2005. Logical Data Modeling: What it is and How to do it. Heumann JM, editor. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Lindquist S, Westerlund B, Sundblad Y, Tobiasson H, Beaudouin-Lafon M, Mackay W. 2007. Co-designing Communication Technology with and for Families – Methods, Experience, Results and Impact. In: Streitz N, Kameas A, Mavrommati I, editors. The Disappearing Computer: Interaction Design, System Infrastructures and Applications for Smart Environments. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 99–119.

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

Davis J. 2015. High Stomach Acidity Might Help Animals Protect Against Gut Infection. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/low-stomach-acidity-might-help-animals-protect-against-gut-infection/

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. 2000. Aviation Infrastructure: Feasibility of Using Alternate Means to Satisfy Requirements of Alaska National Airspace System Interfacility Communications System (ANICS) Phase II. 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

Goldstein J. 2012. Murder in Colonial Albany: European and Indian Responses to Cross-Cultural Murders [Doctoral dissertation]. Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Brantley B. 2016. So Smart (but Truly Vile). New York Times.:C1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bhatia 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Ibn-Elhaj and Schadt 2001; Bhatia 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ibn-Elhaj and Schadt 2001)
Three or more authors: (Zhao et al. 2014)

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