How to format your references using the Animal Gene citation style

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

Brinster, R.L., 2007. Male germline stem cells: from mice to men. Science 316, 404–405.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hudson, P.J., Bjørnstad, O.N., 2003. Ecology. Vole stranglers and lemming cycles. Science 302, 797–798.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hellweger, F.L., van Sebille, E., Fredrick, N.D., 2014. Biogeographic patterns in ocean microbes emerge in a neutral agent-based model. Science 345, 1346–1349.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Albert, B.B., Derraik, J.G.B., Brennan, C.M., Biggs, J.B., Smith, G.C., Garg, M.L., Cameron-Smith, D., Hofman, P.L., Cutfield, W.S., 2014. Higher omega-3 index is associated with increased insulin sensitivity and more favourable metabolic profile in middle-aged overweight men. Sci. Rep. 4, 6697.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Benchaib, A., 2015. Advanced Control of AC/DC Power Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Lovat, T. (Ed.), 2012. Women in Islam: Reflections on Historical and Contemporary Research. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Molina, C., Tubella, J., González, A., 2008. Reducing Misspeculation Penalty in Trace-Level Speculative Multithreaded Architectures, in: Labarta, J., Joe, K., Sato, T. (Eds.), High-Performance Computing: 6th International Symposium, ISHPC 2005, Nara, Japan, September 7-9, 2005, First International Workshop on Advanced Low Power Systems, ALPS 2006, Revised Selected Papers, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 43–55.

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 Gene.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. June Is National Oceans Month [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/june-national-oceans-month/ (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, 2001. Aviation Rulemaking: Incomplete Implementation Impaired FAA’s Reform Efforts (No. GAO-01-950T). 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

Koh, S.A., 2010. A comparison of treatment integrity assessment methods for behavioral intervention (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

Cunningham, J., 2017. Spotting Celebrities on His Lunch Break. New York Times A18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brinster, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Brinster, 2007; Hudson and Bjørnstad, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Hudson and Bjørnstad, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Albert et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Gene
ISSN (print)	2352-4065
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