How to format your references using the Animal Nutrition citation style

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

Thompson SM. Neuroscience. Matching at the synapse. Science. 2005 May 6;308(5723):800–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Reddy GV, Meyerowitz EM. Stem-cell homeostasis and growth dynamics can be uncoupled in the Arabidopsis shoot apex. Science. 2005 Oct 28;310(5748):663–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bryant P, Nunes T, Snaith R. Children learn an untaught rule of spelling. Nature. 2000 Jan 13;403(6766):157–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

O’Brien CA, Pollett A, Gallinger S, Dick JE. A human colon cancer cell capable of initiating tumour growth in immunodeficient mice. Nature. 2007 Jan 4;445(7123):106–10.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Baker KR. Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Gaber T, Hassanien AE, El-Bendary N, Dey N, editors. The 1st International Conference on Advanced Intelligent System and Informatics (AISI2015), November 28-30, 2015, Beni Suef, Egypt. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. (Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing; vol. 407).

A chapter in an edited book

Yilbas BS, Shuja SZ. Laser Induced Evaporation at the Surface. In: Shuja SZ, editor. Laser Surface Processing and Model Studies. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 81–110. (Materials Forming, Machining and Tribology).

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 Nutrition.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. New Horizons Will Arrive At Pluto Tomorrow! [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/everything-you-need-know-about-new-horizons-arriving-pluto-tomorrow/

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. Information Security: Progress Made, but Federal Aviation Administration Needs to Improve Controls over Air Traffic Control Systems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005 Aug. Report No.: GAO-05-712.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ng A. Exploring the perceptions of health care leaders: Colorectal cancer screening barriers among Chinese Canadian women [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2012.

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

Crow K. Mott Street as a Path to Revolution For the Father of Modern China. New York Times. 2002 Sep 1;145.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Thompson 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Reddy and Meyerowitz 2005; Thompson 2005).

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

Two authors: (Reddy and Meyerowitz 2005)
Three or more authors: (O’Brien et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Nutrition
Abbreviation	Anim. Nutr.
ISSN (print)	2405-6545
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