How to format your references using the Animal Migration citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Animal Migration (AMI). 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

[1]

Stillman B., DNA replication. Genomic views of genome duplication, Science, 2001, 294, 2301–2304

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Allen M.R., Stainforth D.A., Towards objective probabalistic climate forecasting, Nature, 2002, 419, 228

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Oliet S.H., Piet R., Poulain D.A., Control of glutamate clearance and synaptic efficacy by glial coverage of neurons, Science, 2001, 292, 923–926

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ozawa S., Murakami M., Kaidzu M., Tada T., Sagiya T., Hatanaka Y., et al., Detection and monitoring of ongoing aseismic slip in the Tokai region, central Japan, Science, 2002, 298, 1009–1012

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mesterton-Gibbons M., A Concrete Approach to Mathematical Modelling, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2007

An edited book

[1]

Leatham K.R. (Ed.), Vital Directions for Mathematics Education Research, Springer, New York, NY, 2013

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Blume H.-P., Beyer L., Pfisterer U., Felix-Henningsen P., Soil Characteristicsand Pattern of the Nizzana Research Site, In: Breckle, S.-W., Yair, A., Veste, M. (Eds.), Arid Dune Ecosystems: The Nizzana Sands in the Negev Desert, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008, 65–77

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 Migration.

Blog post

[1]

Evans K., New Species Of Gecko Gets Naked Quickly To Escape, IFLScience, 2017

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, Working Comfortably With Video Display Terminals, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rodman R.A., Casual factors that contribute to gender bias in career choice among junior high school age females, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 2010

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

[1]

Crouse K., His Term, Forever: Amen, New York Times, 2015, B11

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Migration
ISSN (online)	2084-8838
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