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

Mikaloff-Fletcher, S. E.: CLIMATE. An increasing carbon sink?, Science, 349, 1165, 2015.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rosegrant, M. W. and Cline, S. A.: Global food security: challenges and policies, Science, 302, 1917–1919, 2003.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fotso, H., Mikelsons, K., and Freericks, J. K.: Thermalization of field driven quantum systems, Sci. Rep., 4, 4699, 2014.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Landsea, C. W., Harper, B. A., Hoarau, K., and Knaff, J. A.: Climate change. Can we detect trends in extreme tropical cyclones?, Science, 313, 452–454, 2006.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McCall, M. W.: Classical Mechanics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2010.

An edited book

Wong, C. P., Moon, K.-S., and Li, Y. (grace) (Eds.): Nano-Bio- Electronic, Photonic and MEMS Packaging, 1st ed., Springer US, Boston, MA, XI, 761 p pp., 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

James, J. T.: Toxicology, in: Space Physiology and Medicine: From Evidence to Practice, edited by: Nicogossian, A. E., Williams, R. S., Huntoon, C. L., Doarn, C. R., Polk, J. D., and Schneider, V. S., Springer, New York, NY, 137–153, 2016.

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

How Floating Turbines Could Harness The Awesome Power Of The Tides: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-floating-turbines-could-harness-awesome-power-tides/, 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: National Airspace System: Questions Concerning FAA’s Wide Area Augmentation System, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Foster, R. L.: The Perceptions of Language Minority Parents Regarding Informed Consent in the Special Education Process, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2016.

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

Koblin, J.: President’s First Days Keep Networks’ Ratings Strong, New York Times, 31st January, B3, 2017.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Mikaloff-Fletcher, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Mikaloff-Fletcher, 2015; Rosegrant and Cline, 2003).

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

Two authors: (Rosegrant and Cline, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Landsea et al., 2006)

About the journal

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