How to format your references using the Avian Pathology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Avian Pathology. 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

Soker, N. (2007). Astronomy. Nebulae around evolved stars. Science (New York, N.Y.), 315, 1086–1087.

A journal article with 2 authors

Baker, D. & Sali, A. (2001). Protein structure prediction and structural genomics. Science (New York, N.Y.), 294, 93–96.

A journal article with 3 authors

Le Mée, L., Girardeau, J. & Monnier, C. (2004). Mantle segmentation along the Oman ophiolite fossil mid-ocean ridge. Nature, 432, 167–172.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Burg, T.P., Godin, M., Knudsen, S.M., Shen, W., Carlson, G., Foster, J.S., Babcock, K. & Manalis, S.R. (2007). Weighing of biomolecules, single cells and single nanoparticles in fluid. Nature, 446, 1066–1069.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Micouin, P. (2014). Model-Based Systems Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Heshmati, A. (2015). The Development of Renewable Energy Sources and its Significance for the Environment. (S. Abolhosseini & J. Altmann, Eds.). Singapore: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Murad, A. (2007). A GIS Application for Modeling Accessibility to Health Care Centers in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia. In P.C. Lai & A.S.H. Mak (Eds.), GIS for Health and the Environment: Development in the Asia-Pacific Region With 110 Figures, Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (pp. 57–70). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

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 Avian Pathology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016, November 10). Which Country Drinks The Most Alcohol? IFLScience. IFLScience. Retrieved October 30, 2018, from https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/which-country-drinks-the-most-alcohol/

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. (2008). Aviation Weather: Services at Key Aviation Facilities Lack Performance Measures, but Improvement Efforts Are Under Way ( No. GAO-08-491T). 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

Prasad, A.B. (2010). Analyzing comparative sequence data to understand genome function and evolution (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. (2017, April 6). Bewitched by the Tesla Story. New York Times, p. B1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Soker, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Baker & Sali, 2001; Soker, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Baker & Sali, 2001)
Three authors: (Le Mée, Girardeau & Monnier, 2004)
6 or more authors: (Burg et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Avian Pathology
Abbreviation	Avian Pathol.
ISSN (print)	0307-9457
ISSN (online)	1465-3338
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology General Immunology and Microbiology Food Animals