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

Burnett, K., 2000. Laser-matter interactions. It takes two electrons to tango. Nature 405, 631, 633.

A journal article with 2 authors

Honma, T., Goto, K., 2001. Complexes of MADS-box proteins are sufficient to convert leaves into floral organs. Nature 409, 525–529.

A journal article with 3 authors

Robinson, C.V., Sali, A., Baumeister, W., 2007. The molecular sociology of the cell. Nature 450, 973–982.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fischle, W., Tseng, B.S., Dormann, H.L., Ueberheide, B.M., Garcia, B.A., Shabanowitz, J., Hunt, D.F., Funabiki, H., Allis, C.D., 2005. Regulation of HP1-chromatin binding by histone H3 methylation and phosphorylation. Nature 438, 1116–1122.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hood, D., Trojer, E., 2012. Gigabit-Capable Passive Optical Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Yee, J.T., 2013. Technology Integration to Business: Focusing on RFID, Interoperability, and Sustainability for Manufacturing, Logistics, and Supply Chain Management. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Kontaki, M., Papadopoulos, A.N., Manolopoulos, Y., 2010. Continuous Processing of Preference Queries in Data Streams, in: Leeuwen, J. van, Muscholl, A., Peleg, D., Pokorný, J., Rumpe, B. (Eds.), SOFSEM 2010: Theory and Practice of Computer Science: 36th Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, Špindlerův Mlýn, Czech Republic, January 23-29, 2010. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 47–60.

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, D., 2016. Astronomers Just Discovered One Of The Most Massive Objects In The Universe Hiding Behind The Milky Way [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-just-discovered-one-of-the-most-massive-objects-in-the-universe-hiding-behind-the-milky-way/ (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, 2014. DOE Loan Programs: DOE Has Made More Than $30 Billion in Loans and Guarantees and Needs to Fully Develop Its Loan Monitoring Function (No. GAO-14-645T). 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

Lee, M., 2014. A graphic design curriculum development project (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

Stewart, J.B., 2017. In Ditching Netflix, Disney Grabs New Key to Kingdom. 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 (Burnett, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Burnett, 2000; Honma and Goto, 2001).

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

Two authors: (Honma and Goto, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Fischle et al., 2005)

About the journal

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