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

Assmann, S.M., 2005. G proteins Go green: a plant G protein signaling FAQ sheet. Science 310, 71–73.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sosnick, T.R., Hinshaw, J.R., 2011. Biochemistry. How proteins fold. Science 334, 464–465.

A journal article with 3 authors

Charlebois, R.L., Beiko, R.G., Ragan, M.A., 2003. Microbial phylogenomics: Branching out. Nature 421, 217.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gomis-Rüth, F.X., Moncalián, G., Pérez-Luque, R., González, A., Cabezón, E., de la Cruz, F., Coll, M., 2001. The bacterial conjugation protein TrwB resembles ring helicases and F1-ATPase. Nature 409, 637–641.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Drake, P.P., Fabozzi, F.J., 2010. The Basics of Finance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Xhafa, F., Caballé, S., Abraham, A., Daradoumis, T., Juan Perez, A.A. (Eds.), 2010. Computational Intelligence for Technology Enhanced Learning, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Schumacher, N., Mook, S.-C., Shimanovich, I., Zillikens, D., Schmidt, E., 2015. Life-Threatening Pemphigus Vulgaris, in: Murrell, D.F. (Ed.), Clinical Cases in Autoimmune Blistering Diseases. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 35–43.

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

Luntz, S., 2014. Beautiful Glowing Beaches Look Like Something From Another World [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/beautiful-glowing-beaches-look-something-another-world/ (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, 2007. Federal Transit Benefits Program: Ineffective Controls Result in Fraud and Abuse by Federal Workers (No. GAO-07-724T). 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

Othmanawny, G., 2017. Soaked and Unsoaked Performance of Crushed Gravel and Limestone Aggregates (Doctoral dissertation). Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Koblin, J., 2017. For Revival, MTV Pivots To Its Past. 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 (Assmann, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Assmann, 2005; Sosnick and Hinshaw, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Sosnick and Hinshaw, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Gomis-Rüth et al., 2001)

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