How to format your references using the Canadian Journal of Animal Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Canadian Journal of Animal Science. 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

Smaglik, P. 2004. Key words. Nature 431: 879.

A journal article with 2 authors

Antonakis, J., and Dalgas, O. 2009. Predicting elections: child’s play! Science 323: 1183.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lee, J.B., Park, C., and Seoul National University Investigation Committee 2006. Molecular genetics: verification that Snuppy is a clone. Nature 440: E2-3.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jha, N., Ramesh, P., Bekyarova, E., Tian, X., Wang, F., Itkis, M.E., and Haddon, R.C. 2013. Functionalized single-walled carbon nanotube-based fuel cell benchmarked against US DOE 2017 technical targets. Sci. Rep. 3: 2257.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

da Silva, F.S.C., and Agustí-Cullell, J. 2005. Knowledge Coordination. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Broy, M., Krüger, I.H., and Meisinger, M. (eds.) 2008. Model-Driven Development of Reliable Automotive Services: Second Automotive Software Workshop, ASWSD 2006, San Diego, CA, USA, March 15-17, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Ghergu, M. 2013. Singular Semilinear Elliptic Equations with Subquadratic Gradient Terms. Pages 75–91 in M. Reissig and M. Ruzhansky, eds. Progress in Partial Differential Equations: Asymptotic Profiles, Regularity and Well-Posedness. Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg.

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 Canadian Journal of Animal Science.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J. 2016.September 14. SpaceX May Start Launches Again As Soon As November After Rocket Explosion. IFLScience.

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 1999. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: DEA Has Developed Plans and Established Controls for Business Continuity Planning. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Reller, T.L. 2010. Exploring differences in teacher attitudes and instructional strategies between traditional and block schedule high schools: A comparison of two small schools. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Thrush, G., Shear, M.D., and Sullivan, E. 2017.August 4. Former General Taking Control At White House. New York Times: A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Smaglik 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Smaglik 2004; Antonakis and Dalgas 2009).

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

Two authors: (Antonakis and Dalgas 2009)
Three or more authors: (Jha et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Canadian Journal of Animal Science
Abbreviation	Can. J. Anim. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0008-3984
ISSN (online)	1918-1825
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Food Animals