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

Reichhardt T (2000) Funding woes spell doom for US radio dish. Nature 404:7

A journal article with 2 authors

Pelton JN, Logsdon J (2008) Retrospective. Arthur C. Clarke (1917-2008). Science 320:189

A journal article with 3 authors

Gupta A, Zadafiya P, Mahalakshmi R (2014) Differential contribution of tryptophans to the folding and stability of the attachment invasion locus transmembrane β-barrel from Yersinia pestis. Sci Rep 4:6508

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Kim J-M, Park J-H, Lee CK, Lee S-Y (2014) Multifunctional semi-interpenetrating polymer network-nanoencapsulated cathode materials for high-performance lithium-ion batteries. Sci Rep 4:4602

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murdoch I, Turpin S, Johnston B, et al (2014) Geriatric Emergencies. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Bose K (ed) (2015) Proteases in Apoptosis: Pathways, Protocols and Translational Advances, 1st ed. 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Andersson D (2007) HIROIMONO Is NP-Complete. In: Crescenzi P, Prencipe G, Pucci G (eds) Fun with Algorithms: 4th International Conference, FUN 2007, Castiglioncello, Italy, June 3-5, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 30–39

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

Davis J (2017) One Of Africa’s Last Remaining “Giant Tusker” Elephants Has Been Killed By Poachers. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/one-of-africas-last-remaining-giant-tusker-elephants-has-been-killed-by-poachers/. 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 (1998) Schools and Libraries Corporation: Actions Needed to Strengthen Program Integrity Operations Before Committing Funds. 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

Policarpio AM (2014) Interventions for children with Autism Spectrum Disorder, typically developing siblings, and parents: A systematic review of the literature. 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

Burghardt LF (2007) Neighbors Protest Flea Market’s Move to Belmont Park. New York Times 14CN5

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Reichhardt 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Reichhardt 2000; Pelton and Logsdon 2008).

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

Two authors: (Pelton and Logsdon 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kim et al. 2014)

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