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

Baker M. 2010. Genomics: The search for association. Nature. 467(7319):1135–38

A journal article with 2 authors

Wang R, Yan X. 2014. Superior asymmetric supercapacitor based on Ni-Co oxide nanosheets and carbon nanorods. Sci. Rep. 4:3712

A journal article with 3 authors

Ryu WS, Berry RM, Berg HC. 2000. Torque-generating units of the flagellar motor of Escherichia coli have a high duty ratio. Nature. 403(6768):444–47

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kim CH, Oda T, Itoh M, Jiang D, Artinger KB, et al. 2000. Repressor activity of Headless/Tcf3 is essential for vertebrate head formation. Nature. 407(6806):913–16

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kuus M. 2013. Geopolitics and Expertise. Oxford: John Wiley & Sons

An edited book

Cervone G, Lin J, Waters N, eds. 2014. Data Mining for Geoinformatics: Methods and Applications. New York, NY: Springer. XI, 166 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Ruan L, Zeng G. 2008. SARS Epidemic: SARS Outbreaks in Inner-land of China. In Emerging Infections in Asia, ed Y Lu, M Essex, B Roberts, pp. 75–96. Boston, MA: Springer US

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

Davis J. 2015. How Will Warming Air Temperatures Impact Antarctica’s Ice Shelves? 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. 1986. Digests of Unpublished Decisions of the Comptroller General of the United States, Vol. II, No. 12. 131721, 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

Marmolejo R. 2013. Drop-in center for homeless veteran families: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation thesis. California State University, Long Beach

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

Vecsey G. 2011. At All-Star Game, Politics and Passion Are Also in Play. New York Times, July 11, p. D2

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