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

Binder, P.-M.: Physics. Reflections on a wall of light, Science, 322, 1334–1335, 2008.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chatterjee, S. and Callaway, E. M.: Parallel colour-opponent pathways to primary visual cortex, Nature, 426, 668–671, 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

Courchamp, F., Woodroffe, R., and Roemer, G.: Removing protected populations to save endangered species, Science, 302, 1532, 2003.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Xie, X., Lu, J., Kulbokas, E. J., Golub, T. R., Mootha, V., Lindblad-Toh, K., Lander, E. S., and Kellis, M.: Systematic discovery of regulatory motifs in human promoters and 3’ UTRs by comparison of several mammals, Nature, 434, 338–345, 2005.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Remy, J.-G. and Letamendia, C.: LTE Services, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

Guo, Y. (Ed.): Selected Topics in Micro/Nano-robotics for Biomedical Applications, Springer, New York, NY, XIV, 194 p pp., 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Khojasteh, S. C., Wong, H., and Hop, C. E. C. A.: Metabolism-Based Drug Interactions, in: Drug Metabolism and Pharmacokinetics Quick Guide, edited by: Wong, H. and Hop, C. E. C. A., Springer, New York, NY, 73–95, 2011.

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

3D Printed Robot Takes Hoverbike Out For A Spin: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/3d-printed-robot-takes-hoverbike-out-spin/, 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: Public Safety Communications: Preliminary Information on FirstNet’s Efforts to Establish a Nationwide Broadband Network, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2015.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bladen, L.: Relationship of Embodied Nursing Knowledge and Client Outcomes in Home Health, Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ, 2014.

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

Wagner, J.: Bruce Finds His Swing by Studying the Stats, New York Times, 21st March, B7, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Binder, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Binder, 2008; Chatterjee and Callaway, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Chatterjee and Callaway, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Xie et al., 2005)

About the journal

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