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

Driehuys B (2006) Chemistry. Toward molecular imaging with xenon MRI. Science (New York, NY) 314, 432–433.

A journal article with 2 authors

Piketty T, Saez E (2014) Inequality in the long run. Science (New York, NY) 344, 838–843.

A journal article with 3 authors

Seoane J, Le H-V, Massagué J (2002) Myc suppression of the p21(Cip1) Cdk inhibitor influences the outcome of the p53 response to DNA damage. Nature 419, 729–734.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Rawashdeh O, de Borsetti NH, Roman G, Cahill GM (2007) Melatonin suppresses nighttime memory formation in zebrafish. Science (New York, NY) 318, 1144–1146.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laplante PA, Ovaska SJ (2011) ‘Real-Time Systems Design and Analysis.’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Merbach W (2007) ‘The Long-Term Fertilization Trials in Halle (Saale), Germany: A Tool for Sustainable and Environmentally Compatible Land Management — Contributions of Plant Nutrition Science in Halle 13.’ (A Deubel, Ed.). (DUV: Wiesbaden)

A chapter in an edited book

Alomari EA, Monowar MM (2014) Towards Data Confidentiality and Portability in Cloud Storage. ‘Design, User Experience, and Usability. User Experience Design for Diverse Interaction Platforms and Environments: Third International Conference, DUXU 2014, Held as Part of HCI International 2014, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, June 22-27, 2014, Proceedings, Part II’. (Ed A Marcus) Lecture Notes in Computer Science. pp. 38–49. (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

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 (2015) The Legacy Of John Nash And His Equilibrium Theory. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/legacy-john-nash-and-his-equilibrium-theory/.

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 (2011) Rail Security: TSA Improved Risk Assessment but Could Further Improve Training and Information Sharing. U.S. Government Printing Office, GAO-11-688T. (Washington, DC)

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Waldner BW (2013) Determining Relationships Between Technology Acceptance and Employee Attitudes Toward Automated Workflows in the Oil Industry. Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, Scottsdale, AZ.

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

Billard M (2010) Warhol, Target: It’s All Good. New York Times E5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Driehuys 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Driehuys 2006; Piketty and Saez 2014).

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

Two authors: (Piketty and Saez 2014)
Three or more authors: (Rawashdeh et al. 2007)

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