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

Gershon D (2000) US Congress encouraged to lay out the welcome mat for skilled foreigners. Nature 405, 597–598.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lee M, Wanke MC (2007) Applied physics. Searching for a solid-state terahertz technology. Science (New York, NY) 316, 64–65.

A journal article with 3 authors

Müller H, Peters A, Chu S (2010) A precision measurement of the gravitational redshift by the interference of matter waves. Nature 463, 926–929.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Knoll AH, Walter MR, Narbonne GM, Christie-Blick N (2004) Geology. A new period for the geologic time scale. Science (New York, NY) 305, 621–622.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Maksoud MA (2017) ‘Quick Reference to Dental Implant Surgery.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Lytras MD, Carroll JM, Damiani E, Tennyson RD, Avison D, Vossen G, Ordonez De Pablos P (Eds) (2008) ‘The Open Knowlege Society. A Computer Science and Information Systems Manifesto: First World Summit on the Knowledge Society, WSKS 2008, Athens, Greece, September 24-26, 2008. Proceedings.’ (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

A chapter in an edited book

Brouwer R, Navrud S (2015) The Use and Development of Benefit Transfer in Europe. ‘Benefit Transfer of Environmental and Resource Values: A Guide for Researchers and Practitioners’. (Eds RJ Johnston, J Rolfe, RS Rosenberger, R Brouwer) The Economics of Non-Market Goods and Resources. pp. 71–83. (Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht)

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

Andrew E (2014) Shark Week Is Lying To People Again. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/shark-week-lying-people-again/.

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) Space Projects: Improvements Needed in Selecting Future Projects for Private Financing. U.S. Government Printing Office, NSIAD-90-147. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McConnell ME (2017) A Dual Diagnosis of Hearing Loss and an Autism Spectrum Disorder: An Illustrative Case Study. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Caramanica J (2017) Sometimes Heartbreak Is a Blessing. New York Times C2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gershon 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Gershon 2000; Lee and Wanke 2007).

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

Two authors: (Lee and Wanke 2007)
Three or more authors: (Knoll et al. 2004)

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