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

Lawler A. 2000. U.S. SPACE SCIENCE: Earmarks, Rising Costs Threaten NASA Missions. Science. 289(5487):2018.

A journal article with 2 authors

Klausner R, Alonso P. 2004. An attack on all fronts. Nature. 430(7002):930–931.

A journal article with 3 authors

Irvine WTM, Vitelli V, Chaikin PM. 2010. Pleats in crystals on curved surfaces. Nature. 468(7326):947–951.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Inatani M, Irie F, Plump AS, Tessier-Lavigne M, Yamaguchi Y. 2003. Mammalian brain morphogenesis and midline axon guidance require heparan sulfate. Science. 302(5647):1044–1046.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sharkh SM, Abusara MA, Orfanoudakis GI, Hussain B. 2014. Power Electronic Converters for Microgrids. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons, Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Fleuren H, Hertog DD, Kort P, editors. 2005. Operations Research Proceedings 2004: Selected Papers of the Annual International Conference of the German Operations Research Society (GOR). Jointly Organized with the Netherlands Society for Operations Research (NGB) Tilburg, September 1–3, 2004. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

da Silva PSL, Neto HM, de Carvalho WB. 2014. Neuromuscular Blockade. In: Wheeler DS, Wong HR, Shanley TP, editors. Pediatric Critical Care Medicine: Volume 4: Peri-operative Care of the Critically Ill or Injured Child. London: Springer; p. 77–90.

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 D. 2015. Whale Unexpectedly Slaps Girl Around The Face. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/whale-slaps-girl-around-face/

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. 1983. Deaf/Blind Children and the Centers Serving Them. 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

Singh KK. 2015. An 8-PSK receiver using LNA & SRO: Design and mathematical analysis [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

Shpigel B. 2017. Mountain Time For the Texans. New York Times.:D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawler 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Lawler 2000; Klausner and Alonso 2004).

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

Two authors: (Klausner and Alonso 2004)
Three or more authors: (Inatani et al. 2003)

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

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