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

Paytan A. Global change. Iron uncertainty. Nature 2000;406:468–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kmita M, Duboule D. Organizing axes in time and space; 25 years of colinear tinkering. Science 2003;301:331–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khor B, Gardet A, Xavier RJ. Genetics and pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. Nature 2011;474:307–17.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nakamura A, Kobayashi M, Kuraoka M, Yuasa K, Yugeta N, Okada T, et al. Initial pulmonary respiration causes massive diaphragm damage and hyper-CKemia in Duchenne muscular dystrophy dog. Sci Rep 2013;3:2183.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chassaing R. Digital Signal Processing and Applications with the C6713 and C6416 DSK. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

Ishii M. Thermo-Fluid Dynamics of Two-Phase Flow. New York, NY: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

De Nies T, Beecks C, Godin F, De Neve W, Stepien G, Arndt D, et al. Normalized Semantic Web Distance. In: Sack H, Blomqvist E, d’Aquin M, Ghidini C, Ponzetto SP, Lange C, editors. The Semantic Web. Latest Advances and New Domains: 13th International Conference, ESWC 2016, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, May 29 -- June 2, 2016, Proceedings, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 69–84.

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

Andrews R. 3D “Semantic Atlas” Of The Brain Reveals How We All Give Meaning To Words. IFLScience 2016.

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. Computer Capacity: IRS Must Better Estimate Its Computer Resource Needs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhang G. Roles of serotonin 2A receptor in a serotonin syndrome. Doctoral dissertation. Florida Atlantic University, 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

Burghardt LF. An Animal Sanctuary Is Under Pressure to Move. New York Times 2006:14CN6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Paytan, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kmita and Duboule, 2003; Paytan, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Kmita and Duboule, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Nakamura et al., 2013)

About the journal

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