How to format your references using the Dairy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Dairy. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Bains, W. Comment on “Orthographic Processing in Baboons (Papio Papio).” Science 2012, 337, 1173; author reply 1173.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bjerrum, C.J.; Canfield, D.E. Ocean Productivity before about 1.9 Gyr Ago Limited by Phosphorus Adsorption onto Iron Oxides. Nature 2002, 417, 159–162.

A journal article with 3 authors

Blin, A.; Cissé, I.; Bockelmann, U. Electronic Hybridization Detection in Microarray Format and DNA Genotyping. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4194.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Zhang, Z.; Xu, N.; Chen, D.T.N.; Yunker, P.; Alsayed, A.M.; Aptowicz, K.B.; Habdas, P.; Liu, A.J.; Nagel, S.R.; Yodh, A.G. Thermal Vestige of the Zero-Temperature Jamming Transition. Nature 2009, 459, 230–233.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lieberman, J.A.; Tasman, A. Handbook of Psychiatric Drugs; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2006; ISBN 9780470029435.

An edited book

Advances in Information and Computer Security: 5th International Workshop on Security, IWSEC 2010, Kobe, Japan, November 22-24, 2010. Proceedings; Echizen, I., Kunihiro, N., Sasaki, R., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; Vol. 6434; ISBN 9783642168246.

A chapter in an edited book

Bhidayasiri, R.; Tarsy, D. Tremor-Dominant Parkinson’s Disease. In Movement Disorders: A Video Atlas: A Video Atlas; Tarsy, D., Ed.; Humana Press: Totowa, NJ, 2012; pp. 8–9 ISBN 9781603274258.

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 Dairy.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Search For Planet Nine Finds Four Candidates In Three Days Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/space/search-for-planet-nine-finds-four-candidates-in-three-days/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Highway Infrastructure: Quality Improvements Would Safeguard Billions of Dollars Already Invested; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1994;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McCullough, J. Functional Outcomes and Patient Satisfaction. A Retrospective Study to Determine If These Factors Are Correlated in a Clinical Setting. A Project Report. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA, 2009.

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

Sisario, B.; Rashbaum, W.K. Entrepreneur Behind Fyre Festival Is Arrested on Charges of Federal Wire Fraud. New York Times 2017, A16.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Dairy
ISSN (online)	0001-0001
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