How to format your references using the Annual Review of Animal Biosciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Animal Biosciences. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Schmidt C. 2015. Immunology: Another shot at cancer. Nature. 527(7578):S105-7

A journal article with 2 authors

Gilfanov M, Bogdán A. 2010. An upper limit on the contribution of accreting white dwarfs to the type Ia supernova rate. Nature. 463(7283):924–25

A journal article with 3 authors

Kobayashi S, Goto-Yamamoto N, Hirochika H. 2004. Retrotransposon-induced mutations in grape skin color. Science. 304(5673):982

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yu Y, Han S, Chu X, Chu S-I, Wang Z. 2002. Coherent temporal oscillations of macroscopic quantum states in a Josephson junction. Science. 296(5569):889–92

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lavagnini I, Magno F, Seraglia R, Traldi P. 2006. Quantitative Applications of Mass Spectrometry. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Axford JS, ed. 2005. Glycobiology and Medicine: Proceedings of the 7th Jenner Glycobiology and Medicine Symposium. Boston, MA: Springer US. XI, 153 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Spiotta M, Bottrighi A, Giordano L, Theseider Dupré D. 2014. Conformance Analysis of the Execution of Clinical Guidelines with Basic Medical Knowledge and Clinical Terminology. In Knowledge Representation for Health Care: 6th International Workshop, KR4HC 2014, held as part of the Vienna Summer of Logic, VSL 2014, Vienna, Austria, July 21, 2014. Revised Selected Papers, ed S Miksch, D Riaño, A ten Teije, pp. 62–77. Cham: Springer International Publishing

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 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. High-Fat Diet Made Inuits Healthier But Shorter Thanks To Gene Mutations, Study Finds. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. Transportation Infrastructure: States Benefit From Block Grant Flexibility. RCED-90-126, 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

Skutt S. 2017. Midlife Metamorphosis: Archetypal Imaginal Psychology in Midlife Rite of Passage. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Gustines GG. 2010. Savoring The Live Action. New York Times, Aug. 1, p. ST9

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1, 2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Animal Biosciences
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Anim. Biosci.
ISSN (print)	2165-8102
ISSN (online)	2165-8110
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Biotechnology Genetics General Veterinary