How to format your references using the Animal Feed Science and Technology citation style

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

Kronenberg, H.M., 2003. Developmental regulation of the growth plate. Nature 423, 332–336.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simmons, E.M., Hartwig, J.F., 2012. Catalytic functionalization of unactivated primary C-H bonds directed by an alcohol. Nature 483, 70–73.

A journal article with 3 authors

Miyagoshi, T., Kageyama, A., Sato, T., 2010. Zonal flow formation in the Earth’s core. Nature 463, 793–796.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Cuthill, I.C., Stevens, M., Sheppard, J., Maddocks, T., Párraga, C.A., Troscianko, T.S., 2005. Disruptive coloration and background pattern matching. Nature 434, 72–74.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Geman, H., 2015. Agricultural Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Galimberti, D., Scarpini, E. (Eds.), 2014. Neurodegenerative Diseases: Clinical Aspects, Molecular Genetics and Biomarkers. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Furbach, U., Schon, C., 2015. Deontic Logic for Human Reasoning, in: Eiter, T., Strass, H., Truszczyński, M., Woltran, S. (Eds.), Advances in Knowledge Representation, Logic Programming, and Abstract Argumentation: Essays Dedicated to Gerhard Brewka on the Occasion of His 60th Birthday, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 63–80.

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 Feed Science and Technology.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2016. A Walrus Has Been Born In A Canadian Aquarium For The First Time [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/walrus-has-been-born-canadian-aquarium-first-time/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1993. Advanced Solid Rocket Motor Status (No. NSIAD-93-258R). 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

Rajendran, N., 2010. Assessment of upper extremity strength, power, and flexibility characteristics of college-aged male and female students (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Gimenez, S., 2011. When a Decision Letter Is From Mom’s Alma Mater. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Kronenberg, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Kronenberg, 2003; Simmons and Hartwig, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Simmons and Hartwig, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Cuthill et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Feed Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Anim. Feed Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0377-8401
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology