How to format your references using the Comparative Medicine citation style

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

Kaplan F. 2009. An alien concept. Nature 461:345–346.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bradford L, O’Tierney P. 2001. Three-person rule was not set by Nobel himself. Nature 411:413.

A journal article with 3 authors

Watts DJ, Dodds PS, Newman MEJ. 2002. Identity and search in social networks. Science 296:1302–1305.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Seemann J, Pypaert M, Taguchi T, Malsam J, Warren G. 2002. Partitioning of the matrix fraction of the Golgi apparatus during mitosis in animal cells. Science 295:848–851.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gu X, Jiang N, Ji K, Li H, Qiu X, Li W, Ji X, Du H, Sheng B, Huang H. 2017. Self-healing Control Technology for Distribution Networks. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd.

An edited book

Balan R, Begué M, Benedetto JJ, Czaja W, Okoudjou KA, editors. 2015. Excursions in Harmonic Analysis, Volume 4: The February Fourier Talks at the Norbert Wiener Center. 1st ed. 2015. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Wersényi G. 2010. Auditory Representations of a Graphical User Interface for a Better Human-Computer Interaction, p 80–102. In: Ystad S, Aramaki M, Kronland-Martinet R, Jensen K, editors. Auditory Display: 6th International Symposium, CMMR/ICAD 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark, May 18-22, 2009 Revised Papers. 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 Comparative Medicine.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2015. Advances In Tackling Depression. 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. 1984. Federal Agencies’ Actions To Implement Section 11 of the Stevenson-Wydler Technology Innovation Act of 1980. 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

Breckheimer I. 2012. Mapping habitat quality in conservation’s neglected geography, Doctoral dissertation. Chapel Hill, NC: University of North Carolina.

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

Qiu L. 2017. Lessons and Interpretations on the Court Nomination Process. New York Times :A13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ².
This sentence cites two references ^3,4.
This sentence cites four references ^3,4,7,8.

About the journal

Full journal title	Comparative Medicine
Abbreviation	Comp. Med.
ISSN (print)	1532-0820
Scope	General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Veterinary