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

Neylon, C., 2012. Science publishing: Open access must enable open use. Nature 492, 348–349.

A journal article with 2 authors

Simons, M., Eichmann, A., 2013. Physiology. Lymphatics are in my veins. Science 341, 622–624.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pocock, M.J.O., Evans, D.M., Memmott, J., 2012. The robustness and restoration of a network of ecological networks. Science 335, 973–977.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Koçer, Z.A., Fan, Y., Huether, R., Obenauer, J., Webby, R.J., Zhang, J., Webster, R.G., Wu, G., 2014. Survival analysis of infected mice reveals pathogenic variations in the genome of avian H1N1 viruses. Sci. Rep. 4, 7455.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pashley, R.M., Karaman, M.E., 2005. Applied Colloid and Surface Chemistry. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Gallagher, P., Desmond, D., MacLachlan, M. (Eds.), 2008. Psychoprosthetics. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Drumwright, M.M., Williams, J.D., 2013. The Role of Ethics in Food and Beverage Marketing to Children, in: Williams, J.D., Pasch, K.E., Collins, C.A. (Eds.), Advances in Communication Research to Reduce Childhood Obesity. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 79–99.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. We all Age at Different Speeds – and Scientists Have Worked out how to Calculate it [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/we-all-age-different-speeds-and-scientists-have-worked-out-how-calculate-it/ (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, 1994. National Test Facility: Civilian Agency Use of Supercomputers Not Feasible (No. AIMD-95-28). 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

Slade, S.W., 2010. The complexity of leading in the 21st century: A case study of a successful charter school in an urban school district (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Stewart, J.B., 2016. How Dauman Lost the Battle for Viacom. New York Times B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Neylon, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Neylon, 2012; Simons and Eichmann, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Simons and Eichmann, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Koçer et al., 2014)

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