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

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

Stewart, L., 2014. Gerontology: Will you still need me, will you still feed me? Nature 514, S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martinez-Perez, E., Moore, G., 2004. Plant sciences. Promiscuous maize chromosomes. Science 303, 49–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Tupler, R., Perini, G., Green, M.R., 2001. Expressing the human genome. Nature 409, 832–833.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mayntz, D., Raubenheimer, D., Salomon, M., Toft, S., Simpson, S.J., 2005. Nutrient-specific foraging in invertebrate predators. Science 307, 111–113.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

van Vreeswijk, M., Broersen, J., Schurink, G., 2014. Mindfulness and Schema Therapy. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Jing, X., 2015. Frequency Domain Analysis and Design of Nonlinear Systems based on Volterra Series Expansion: A Parametric Characteristic Approach, Understanding Complex Systems. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

van Zonneveld, M., Dawson, I., Thomas, E., Scheldeman, X., van Etten, J., Loo, J., Hormaza, J.I., 2014. Application of Molecular Markers in Spatial Analysis to Optimize In Situ Conservation of Plant Genetic Resources, in: Tuberosa, R., Graner, A., Frison, E. (Eds.), Genomics of Plant Genetic Resources: Volume 1. Managing, Sequencing and Mining Genetic Resources. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 67–91.

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 Reproduction Science.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2015. Snake Escapes After Being Eaten By A Larger Snake [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/snake-escapes-after-being-eaten-bigger-snake/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2003. Highway Safety: Better Guidance Could Improve Oversight of State Highway Safety Programs (No. GAO-03-474). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sumner, I., 2010. Quantum wavepacket ab initio molecular dynamics: Simulating quantum nuclear effects in complex systems (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Pratt, T., 2012. ‘If You Fix Cities, You Kind of Fix the World.’ New York Times MM22.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stewart, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Martinez-Perez and Moore, 2004; Stewart, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Martinez-Perez and Moore, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Mayntz et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Reproduction Science
Abbreviation	Anim. Reprod. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0378-4320
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Endocrinology General Medicine Food Animals