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

Davis, B., 2011. Education. Mathematics teachers’ subtle, complex disciplinary knowledge. Science 332, 1506–1507.

A journal article with 2 authors

Weaver, B.A.A., Cleveland, D.W., 2007. Comment on “A centrosome-independent role for gamma-TuRC proteins in the spindle assembly checkpoint.” Science 316, 982; author reply 982.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yang, L., Garbe, D.S., Bashaw, G.J., 2009. A frazzled/DCC-dependent transcriptional switch regulates midline axon guidance. Science 324, 944–947.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Thakur, S., Biswas, D., Sahadev, N., Biswas, P.K., Balakrishnan, G., Maiti, K., 2013. Complex spectral evolution in a BCS superconductor, ZrB12. Sci. Rep. 3, 3342.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Vettese, F., 2015. The Essential Retirement Guide. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gervasi, O., Taniar, D., Murgante, B., Laganà, A., Mun, Y., Gavrilova, M.L. (Eds.), 2009. Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2009: International Conference, Seoul, Korea, June 29-July 2, 2009, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Homburg, C., Schäfer, H., Schneider, J., 2012. Sales Channels and Sales Partners: Designing the Route to the Customer, in: Schäfer, H., Schneider, J. (Eds.), Sales Excellence: Systematic Sales Management, Management for Professionals. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 45–59.

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. Scientists Shouldn’t Be Too Scared Of The Public When Discussing Climate Change [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/scientsits-shouldnt-be-too-scared-of-the-public-when-discussing-climate-change/ (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, 1998. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Telecommunications Readiness Critical, Yet Overall Status Largely Unknown (No. T-AIMD-98-212). 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

Lowden, M.R., 2008. Genesis of end-to-end chromosome fusions (Doctoral dissertation). University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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

Hollander, S., 2000. Offended Fan Wants Ashe Statue Moved. New York Times D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Davis, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Davis, 2011; Weaver and Cleveland, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Weaver and Cleveland, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Thakur et al., 2013)

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