How to format your references using the Animal Production Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Animal Production Science. 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	Download the output style file
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

DeFelice LJ (2004) Going against the flow. Nature 432, 279.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bruick RK, McKnight SL (2001) A conserved family of prolyl-4-hydroxylases that modify HIF. Science (New York, NY) 294, 1337–1340.

A journal article with 3 authors

Locher KP, Bass RB, Rees DC (2003) Structural biology. Breaching the barrier. Science (New York, NY) 301, 603–604.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Kandada ARS, Grancini G, Petrozza A, Perissinotto S, Fazzi D, Raavi SSK, Lanzani G (2013) Ultrafast energy transfer in ultrathin organic donor/acceptor blend. Scientific Reports 3, 2073.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Estopinal SV, Lathrop W (2011) ‘Professional Surveyors and Real Property Descriptions.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, New Jersey)

An edited book

Coffey J, Budgeon S, Cahill H (Eds) (2016) ‘Learning Bodies: The Body in Youth and Childhood Studies.’ (Springer: Singapore)

A chapter in an edited book

Baldrian P, Štursová M (2011) Enzymes in Forest Soils. ‘Soil Enzymology’. (Eds G Shukla, A Varma) Soil Biology. pp. 61–73. (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

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 Production Science.

Blog post

Andrews R (2017) Google Is Celebrating The Antikythera Mechanism’s Discovery – But What The Hell Is It? IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/google-is-celebrating-the-antikythera-mechanisms-discovery-but-what-the-hell-is-it/.

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 (1990) Burden Sharing: Allied Protection of Ships in the Persian Gulf in 1987 and 1988. U.S. Government Printing Office, NSIAD-90-282BR. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Green DJ (2010) Shoulder functional anatomy and development – Implications for interpreting early hominin locomotion. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Healy J (2013) Utah Judge Unexpected as a Hero to Gay People. New York Times A11.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (DeFelice 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Bruick and McKnight 2001; DeFelice 2004).

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

Two authors: (Bruick and McKnight 2001)
Three or more authors: (Kandada et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Production Science
Abbreviation	Anim. Prod. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1836-0939
ISSN (online)	1836-5787
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Food Science