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

Begelman M (2009) Astronomy. A flare for acceleration. Science 325:399–400

A journal article with 2 authors

Bettencourt L, West G (2010) A unified theory of urban living. Nature 467:912–913

A journal article with 3 authors

Furman JL, Murray F, Stern S (2010) More for the research dollar. Nature 468:757–758

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Paton AW, Beddoe T, Thorpe CM, et al (2006) AB5 subtilase cytotoxin inactivates the endoplasmic reticulum chaperone BiP. Nature 443:548–552

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bowen C (2015) Children’s Speech Sound Disorders. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Cao B, Li T-F, Zhang C-Y (eds) (2009) Fuzzy Information and Engineering Volume 2. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Mac Innis KA (2005) The Canadian SSOP Fund and Environmental Damage Assessment (EDA) in Canada. In: Maes F (ed) Marine Resource Damage Assessment: Liability and Compensation for Environmental Damage. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 67–84

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 D (2016) The 12 Most Controversial Facts In Mathematics. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-12-most-controversial-facts-in-mathematics/. 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 (2014) DOD Education Benefits: Action Is Needed to Ensure Evaluations of Postsecondary Schools Are Useful. 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

Shah SK (2017) Data Transmission Using Image Steganography in Quick Response (QR) Code. Doctoral dissertation, 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

Wilson M (2017) Chelsea Bomb Suspect Prevented Another Explosion, His Lawyer Claims. New York Times A16

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Begelman 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Begelman 2009; Bettencourt and West 2010).

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

Two authors: (Bettencourt and West 2010)
Three or more authors: (Paton et al. 2006)

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