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

Northup, T. 2015. Quantum physics: Squeezed ions in two places at once. Nature 521: 295–296.

A journal article with 2 authors

Buckling, A., and Rainey, P.B. 2002. The role of parasites in sympatric and allopatric host diversification. Nature 420: 496–499.

A journal article with 3 authors

Elias, L.A.B., Wang, D.D., and Kriegstein, A.R. 2007. Gap junction adhesion is necessary for radial migration in the neocortex. Nature 448: 901–907.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Fushman, I., Englund, D., Faraon, A., Stoltz, N., Petroff, P., and Vuckovic, J. 2008. Controlled phase shifts with a single quantum dot. Science 320: 769–772.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Scott, D.W. 2008. Color Atlas of Farm Animal Dermatology. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Andersson, P.G. (ed.) 2011. Iridium Catalysis. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Schmitz-Valckenberg, S., Fleckenstein, M., Spaide, R., and Holz, F.G. 2010. Autofluorescence Imaging. Pages 41–50 in F.G. Holz and R. Spaide, eds. Medical Retina: Focus on Retinal Imaging. Springer, Berlin, 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

Davis, J. 2017.February 28. WHO Releases Hit List Of 12 Bacteria That Pose Biggest Threat To Human Health. IFLScience. [Online] Available: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/who-releases-hit-list-of-12-bacteria-that-pose-biggest-threat-to-human-health/ [2018 Oct. 30].

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 2007. Highlights of a Forum: Transforming Transportation Policy for the 21st Century. 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

Abrahamian, A. 2012. Diagnosis and treatment of childhood depression: A resource for pediatricians. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

St. John Kelly, E. 2004.April 11. Bensonhurst Journal; The Time Has Come to Ride and Beep and Laugh Again. New York Times: 133.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Northup 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Buckling and Rainey 2002; Northup 2015).

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

Two authors: (Buckling and Rainey 2002)
Three or more authors: (Fushman et al. 2008)

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