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

Blank, D.A. 2008. Chemistry. A sideways glance at chemical reactivity. Science 322: 1056–1057.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sfeir, A., and de Lange, T. 2012. Removal of shelterin reveals the telomere end-protection problem. Science 336: 593–597.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prins, M.W., Welters, W.J., and Weekamp, J.W. 2001. Fluid control in multichannel structures by electrocapillary pressure. Science 291: 277–280.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peruzzo, A., Lobino, M., Matthews, J.C.F., Matsuda, N., Politi, A., Poulios, K., Zhou, X.-Q., Lahini, Y., Ismail, N., Wörhoff, K., Bromberg, Y., Silberberg, Y., Thompson, M.G., and OBrien, J.L. 2010. Quantum walks of correlated photons. Science 329: 1500–1503.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Werner, M. 2015. Global Displacements. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Fumagalli, E. 2007. Service Quality Regulation in Electricity Distribution and Retail. Edited ByL.L. Schiavo and F. Delestre. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Gouma, D.J. 2014. Diagnosis and Treatment of Major Abdominal Complications Is Multidisciplinary Work. Pages 19–25 in M.A. Cuesta and H.J. Bonjer, eds. Treatment of Postoperative Complications After Digestive Surgery. Springer, London.

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

Andrew, E. 2015.June 19. Baboons Don’t Play Follow The Leader – They’re Democratic Travellers. IFLScience. [Online] Available: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/baboons-don-t-play-follow-leader-they-re-democratic-travellers/ [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 1985. Use of the Public Law 94-142 Set-Aside Shows Both the Flexibility Intended by the Law and the Need for Improved Reporting. 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

Salam, S. 2017. Interplay between Fines Content and Strength Characteristics of CA 6 and CA 2 Crushed Limestone Aggregate. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Murphy, M.J.O. 2014.October 24. Friday File. New York Times: C31.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blank 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Blank 2008; Sfeir and de Lange 2012).

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

Two authors: (Sfeir and de Lange 2012)
Three or more authors: (Peruzzo et al. 2010)

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

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