How to format your references using the Archives Animal Breeding citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives Animal Breeding. 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

Schneider, S. H.: What is “dangerous” climate change?, Nature, 411, 17–19, 2001.

A journal article with 2 authors

Trinkle, D. R. and Woodward, C.: The chemistry of deformation: how solutes soften pure metals, Science, 310, 1665–1667, 2005.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hoch, J. C., Maciejewski, M. W., and Gryk, M. R.: Comment on “magnetic resonance spectroscopy identifies neural progenitor cells in the live human brain,” Science, 321, 640, 2008.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Mias, G. I., Chen, R., Zhang, Y., Sridhar, K., Sharon, D., Xiao, L., Im, H., Snyder, M. P., and Greenberg, P. L.: Specific plasma autoantibody reactivity in myelodysplastic syndromes, Sci. Rep., 3, 3311, 2013.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Russell, L. C. R., Hodgetts, C. T. J., Mahoney, C. P. F., and Castle, N.: Disaster Rules, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

Burckhardt, P., Dawson-Hughes, B., and Weaver, C. (Eds.): Nutritional Influences on Bone Health, Springer, London, XVII, 205 p pp., 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Schmidt, J.-M., Plos, T., Kirschbaum, M., Hutter, M., Medwed, M., and Herbst, C.: Side-Channel Leakage across Borders, in: Smart Card Research and Advanced Application: 9th IFIP WG 8.8/11.2 International Conference, CARDIS 2010, Passau, Germany, April 14-16, 2010. Proceedings, edited by: Gollmann, D., Lanet, J.-L., and Iguchi-Cartigny, J., Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 36–48, 2010.

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 Archives Animal Breeding.

Blog post

These Are 13 Of The Hottest Places On Earth: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/these-are-13-of-the-hottest-places-on-earth/, last access: 30 October 2018.

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: Women’s Educational Equity Act: A Review of Program Goals and Strategies Needed, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Xiao, E. A.: Understanding Employment to Entrepreneurship Transitions among Women Working in the Tech Industry, Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, 2017.

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

Crow, K.: To the Barricades Over a Police Barricade, New York Times, 11th May, 145, 2003.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schneider, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Schneider, 2001; Trinkle and Woodward, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Trinkle and Woodward, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Mias et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives Animal Breeding
ISSN (print)	0003-9438
ISSN (online)	2363-9822
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