How to format your references using the Archives of Animal Nutrition citation style

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

Fontana W. 2006. Chemistry. Pulling strings. Science. 314(5805):1552–1553.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mery F, Kawecki TJ. 2005. A cost of long-term memory in Drosophila. Science. 308(5725):1148.

A journal article with 3 authors

Palter JB, Lozier MS, Barber RT. 2005. The effect of advection on the nutrient reservoir in the North Atlantic subtropical gyre. Nature. 437(7059):687–692.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Khan RS, Martinez MD, Sy JC, Pendergrass KD, Che P-L, Brown ME, Cabigas EB, Dasari M, Murthy N, Davis ME. 2014. Targeting extracellular DNA to deliver IGF-1 to the injured heart. Sci Rep. 4:4257.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Doerfler W. 2007. Foreign DNA in Mammalian Systems. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Budak H, Spangenberg G, editors. 2015. Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf: The Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on the Molecular Breeding of Forage and Turf. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Haughton D, McLaughlin M-D, Mentzer K, Zhang C. 2015. Oscar Prediction and Prediction Markets. In: McLaughlin M-D, Mentzer K, Zhang C, editors. Movie Analytics: A Hollywood Introduction to Big Data. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 37–39.

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 of Animal Nutrition.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Jaw-Bone Discovery Reveals More About Secret Sex Lives Of Neanderthals And Early Humans. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/jaw-bone-discovery-reveals-more-about-secret-sex-lives-neanderthals-and-early/

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. 2015. Information Technology: Additional Actions and Oversight Urgently Needed to Reduce Waste and Improve Performance in Acquisitions and Operations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ly L. 2017. Performance Appraisal in a Family Business [Doctoral dissertation]. Malibu, CA: Pepperdine University.

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

Pilon M. 2011. Scandals Test the N.C.A.A.’s Top Rules Enforcer. New York Times.:D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fontana 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Mery and Kawecki 2005; Fontana 2006).

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

Two authors: (Mery and Kawecki 2005)
Three or more authors: (Khan et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Animal Nutrition
Abbreviation	Arch. Anim. Nutr.
ISSN (print)	1745-039X
ISSN (online)	1477-2817
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology General Medicine General Veterinary