How to format your references using the Applied Animal Behaviour Science citation style

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

Brody, H., 2012. Human papillomavirus. Nature 488, S1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Diaz, R.E., Sebastian, T., 2013. Electromagnetic limits to radiofrequency (RF) neuronal telemetry. Sci. Rep. 3, 3535.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dale, V.H., Crisafulli, C.M., Swanson, F.J., 2005. Ecology. 25 years of ecological change at Mount St. Helens. Science 308, 961–962.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Krishnamurthy, J., Ramsey, M.R., Ligon, K.L., Torrice, C., Koh, A., Bonner-Weir, S., Sharpless, N.E., 2006. p16INK4a induces an age-dependent decline in islet regenerative potential. Nature 443, 453–457.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Higgs, J., Titchen, A., 2008. Professional Practice in Health, Education and the Creative Arts. Blackwell Science Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Anpo, M., Kamat, P.V. (Eds.), 2010. Environmentally Benign Photocatalysts: Applications of Titanium Oxide-based Materials, 1st ed, Nanostructure Science and Technology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Colli Franzone, P., 2013. Inverse Problems in Electrocardiology, in: Brezzi, F., Colli Franzone, P., Gianazza, U., Gilardi, G. (Eds.), Analysis and Numerics of Partial Differential Equations, Springer INdAM Series. Springer, Milano, pp. 19–36.

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 Applied Animal Behaviour Science.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. The Majority Of Life On Earth Is Already Feeling The Effects Of Climate Change [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/the-majority-of-life-on-earth-is-already-feeling-the-effects-of-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, 2005. No Child Left Behind Act: Most Students with Disabilities Participated in Statewide Assessments, but Inclusion Options Could Be Improved (No. GAO-05-618). 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

Esmaili, G., 2006. Application of Advanced Power Electronics in Renewable Energy Sources and Hybrid Generating Systems (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Scheiber, N., 2017. Arthur Cinader, J. Crew Founder Who Defined Preppy, Dies at 90. New York Times B15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brody, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Brody, 2012; Diaz and Sebastian, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Diaz and Sebastian, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Krishnamurthy et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Abbreviation	Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0168-1591
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Food Animals