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

Thorne KS. 2008. Retrospective: John Archibald Wheeler (1911-2008). Science. 320(5883):1603.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ruprecht P, Plank T. 2013. Feeding andesitic eruptions with a high-speed connection from the mantle. Nature. 500(7460):68–72.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin G, Xu N, Xi R. 2008. Paracrine Wingless signalling controls self-renewal of Drosophila intestinal stem cells. Nature. 455(7216):1119–1123.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Silverstein SC, Dubner J, Miller J, Glied S, Loike JD. 2009. Teachers’ participation in research programs improves their students’ achievement in science. Science. 326(5951):440–442.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chance DM. 2008. Essays in Derivatives. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Saha SK. 2016. Heat Transfer and Pressure Drop in Flow Boiling in Microchannels. Celata GP, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahmed N. 2013. Weak Compactness in the Space of Operator Valued Measures and Optimal Control. In: Hömberg D, Tröltzsch F, editors. System Modeling and Optimization: 25th IFIP TC 7 Conference, CSMO 2011, Berlin, Germany, September 12-16, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 49–58.

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

Luntz S. 2015. Newly Discovered Glass Frog Looks Just Like Kermit! IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/kermits-species-revealed/

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. Electronic Government Act: Agencies Have Implemented Most Provisions, but Key Areas of Attention Remain. 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

Bavkar IN. 2017. In-Node Vehicle Classification and Identification [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: 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

Greenhouse L. 2006. Justices Decline Church-State Case Involving a Kindergarten Poster of Jesus. New York Times.:A23.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thorne 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Thorne 2008; Ruprecht and Plank 2013).

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

Two authors: (Ruprecht and Plank 2013)
Three or more authors: (Silverstein et al. 2009)

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