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

Joyce, G.F., 2002. The antiquity of RNA-based evolution. Nature 418, 214–221.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stone, R., Jasny, B., 2013. Communication in science pressures and predators. Scientific discourse: buckling at the seams. Introduction. Science 342, 56–57.

A journal article with 3 authors

Efeyan, A., Comb, W.C., Sabatini, D.M., 2015. Nutrient-sensing mechanisms and pathways. Nature 517, 302–310.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tsong, A.E., Tuch, B.B., Li, H., Johnson, A.D., 2006. Evolution of alternative transcriptional circuits with identical logic. Nature 443, 415–420.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kirchner, T., 2016. Merger Arbitrage. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Simmons, K., 2009. Pro SQL Server 2008 Administration. Apress, Berkeley, CA.

A chapter in an edited book

Wilkinson, D.G., 2016. Practical Pharmacology of Memantine, in: Davis, K.L., Blesa Gonzalez, R., Wilkinson, David George (Eds.), Practical Pharmacology for Alzheimer’s Disease. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 105–117.

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

Carpineti, A., 2016. Newborn Star Is Surrounded By Complex Molecules [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/newborn-star-is-surrounded-by-complex-molecules/ (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, 2000. SBA Loan Monitoring System: Substantial Progress Yet Key Risks and Challenges Remain (No. T-AIMD-00-113). 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

Rodriguez, E.P., 2014. Curriculum development for nursing assistants: Pressure ulcer prevention module (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

Isaac, M., Chira, S., 2017. Potshot by Uber Director Prompts a Swift Backlash. New York Times A16.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Joyce, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Joyce, 2002; Stone and Jasny, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Stone and Jasny, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Tsong et al., 2006)

About the journal

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