How to format your references using the Animal Cognition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Animal Cognition. 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

Kreeger K (2003) The learning curve. Nature 424:234–235

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang X, Zhao M (2014) Strain-induced phase transition and electron spin-polarization in graphene spirals. Sci Rep 4:5699

A journal article with 3 authors

Van Gaal LF, Mertens IL, De Block CE (2006) Mechanisms linking obesity with cardiovascular disease. Nature 444:875–880

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Mueller KL, Hoon MA, Erlenbach I, et al (2005) The receptors and coding logic for bitter taste. Nature 434:225–229

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Koepsell D (2015) Who Owns You? John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bélair J, Frigaard IA, Kunze H, et al (eds) (2016) Mathematical and Computational Approaches in Advancing Modern Science and Engineering. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Abdalla M, Vie J-J (2012) Leakage-Resilient Spatial Encryption. In: Hevia A, Neven G (eds) Progress in Cryptology – LATINCRYPT 2012: 2nd International Conference on Cryptology and Information Security in Latin America, Santiago, Chile, October 7-10, 2012. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 78–99

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 Cognition.

Blog post

Andrew E (2016) Have Children? Here’s How Kids Ruin Your Romantic Relationship. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/have-children-here-s-how-kids-ruin-your-romantic-relationship/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (1968) Research and Development--and the Congress. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Edwards JW (2006) The Relation Between Expressed Emotion and Adolescent Psychopathology. Doctoral dissertation, Ohio State 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

de la MERCED MJ, Stevenson A (2017) Whole Foods Finds an Unlikely Refuge. New York Times B1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kreeger 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kreeger 2003; Zhang and Zhao 2014).

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

Two authors: (Zhang and Zhao 2014)
Three or more authors: (Mueller et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Cognition
Abbreviation	Anim. Cogn.
ISSN (print)	1435-9448
ISSN (online)	1435-9456
Scope	Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Experimental and Cognitive Psychology