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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Futuyma D.J., Retrospective. Robert R. Sokal (1926-2012), Science, 2012, 336, 816

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kaleeba J.A.R., Berger E.A., Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus fusion-entry receptor: cystine transporter xCT, Science, 2006, 311, 1921–1924

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ma L., Teruya-Feldstein J., Weinberg R.A., Tumour invasion and metastasis initiated by microRNA-10b in breast cancer, Nature, 2007, 449, 682–688

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lendvai B., Stern E.A., Chen B., Svoboda K., Experience-dependent plasticity of dendritic spines in the developing rat barrel cortex in vivo, Nature, 2000, 404, 876–881

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Morgan A., Eating the Big Fish, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2009

An edited book

[1]

Sharpe W.N. (Ed.), Springer Handbook of Experimental Solid Mechanics, Springer US, Boston, MA, 2008

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Boedicker J.Q., Brenner K., Weibel D.B., Spatial Structure of Microbes in Nature and the Biophysics of Cell–Cell Communication, In: Hagen, S.J. (Ed.), The Physical Basis of Bacterial Quorum Communication, Springer, New York, NY, 2015, 53–81

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]

Andrew E., Scientists Discover Oldest Known Muscle Tissue, IFLScience, 2014

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, Aviation Security: Registered Traveler Program Policy and Implementation Issues, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2002

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ashrafzadeh M.H., Provision of community services for the mentally challenged population in Iran, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, 2008

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]

Creswell J., Gustines G.G., A High-End Tussle, New York Times, 2014, B1

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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