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

Rich, P., 2003. Chemiosmotic coupling: The cost of living. Nature 421, 583.

A journal article with 2 authors

Le Goff, L., Lecuit, T., 2009. Developmental biology. Phase transition in a cell. Science 324, 1654–1655.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hsu, M., Anen, C., Quartz, S.R., 2008. The right and the good: distributive justice and neural encoding of equity and efficiency. Science 320, 1092–1095.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jin, J., Desai, B.N., Navarro, B., Donovan, A., Andrews, N.C., Clapham, D.E., 2008. Deletion of Trpm7 disrupts embryonic development and thymopoiesis without altering Mg2+ homeostasis. Science 322, 756–760.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Makishima, A., 2016. Thermal Ionization Mass Spectrometry (TIMS). Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Benhamou, F. (Ed.), 2006. Principles and Practice of Constraint Programming - CP 2006: 12th International Conference, CP 2006, Nantes, France, September 25-29, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Da, T., Li, Z., Feng, B., 2015. A Video Steganalysis Algorithm for H.264/AVC Based on the Markov Features, in: Huang, D.-S., Jo, K.-H., Hussain, A. (Eds.), Intelligent Computing Theories and Methodologies: 11th International Conference, ICIC 2015, Fuzhou, China, August 20-23, 2015, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 47–59.

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., 2017. Boxer Crabs Make Their Anemone “Gloves’” Reproduce Asexually [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/boxer-crabs-make-their-anemone-gloves-reproduce-asexually/ (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, 2007. Health Information Technology: Early Efforts Initiated but Comprehensive Privacy Approach Needed for National Strategy (No. GAO-07-238). 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

Maldonado, J.A., 2010. Searching for Confirmation (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

Lee, L., 2013. Not at First Sight, or Even the First Dozen. New York Times ST12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Rich, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Le Goff and Lecuit, 2009; Rich, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Le Goff and Lecuit, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Jin et al., 2008)

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