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

Pennisi, E., 2013. Geography. Advancing seasons in China. Science 341, 482–483.

A journal article with 2 authors

Adam, D., Butler, D., 2003. Comet mission hangs in the balance. Nature 421, 102.

A journal article with 3 authors

Gao, F., Ding, Z., Meng, S., 2013. Three-dimensional metal-intercalated covalent organic frameworks for near-ambient energy storage. Sci. Rep. 3, 1882.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fricke, H., Hissmann, K., Schauer, J., Erdmann, M., Moosa, M.K., Plante, R., 2000. Biogeography of the Indonesian coelacanths. Nature 403, 38.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Praetorius, S., Schößer, B., 2016. Bentonithandbuch. Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn, Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG, Berlin, Germany.

An edited book

Priol, T., Vanneschi, M. (Eds.), 2008. From Grids to Service and Pervasive Computing. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Boccaccio, A., Brunelli, R., Lamberti, L., Papi, M., Parasassi, T., De Spirito, M., Pappalettere, C., 2015. A Preliminary Investigation on the Mechanical Behavior of Umbilical Cord With Moiré Techniques, in: Jin, H., Sciammarella, C., Yoshida, S., Lamberti, Luciano (Eds.), Advancement of Optical Methods in Experimental Mechanics, Volume 3: Proceedings of the 2014 Annual Conference on Experimental and Applied Mechanics, Conference Proceedings of the Society for Experimental Mechanics Series. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 47–52.

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Brain Pathway Rediscovered After 100 Years [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/brain/brain-pathway-rediscovered-after-100-years/ (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, 2011. Transportation Worker Identification Credential: Mailing Credentials to Applicants’ Residences Would Not Be Consistent with DHS Policy (No. GAO-11-542R). 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

Stoltzfus, K.M., 2010. The relationship between teachers’ training transfer and their perceptions of principal leadership style (Doctoral dissertation). University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ.

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

Carlson, L., 2010. Come Committed or Stay on the Couch. New York Times MB3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Pennisi, 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Adam and Butler, 2003; Pennisi, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Adam and Butler, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Fricke et al., 2000)

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