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

Finkbeiner, A. JASON Past, Present, and Future: The World’s Most Independent Defence Science Advisers. Nature 2011, 477, 397–399.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cowman, A.F.; Crabb, B.S. The Plasmodium Falciparum Genome--a Blueprint for Erythrocyte Invasion. Science 2002, 298, 126–128.

A journal article with 3 authors

Siegel, D.A.; Doney, S.C.; Yoder, J.A. The North Atlantic Spring Phytoplankton Bloom and Sverdrup’s Critical Depth Hypothesis. Science 2002, 296, 730–733.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Schofield, L.; Hewitt, M.C.; Evans, K.; Siomos, M.-A.; Seeberger, P.H. Synthetic GPI as a Candidate Anti-Toxic Vaccine in a Model of Malaria. Nature 2002, 418, 785–789.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, K.Q.T. Wireless Communications; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2015; ISBN 9781119113263.

An edited book

A Century of Ideas: Perspectives from Leading Scientists of the 20th Century; Sidharth, B.G., Ed.; Fundamental Theories of Physics; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2008; Vol. 149; ISBN 9781402043598.

A chapter in an edited book

Gunnarsson, L.; Kristiansson, E.; Larsson, D.G.J. Environmental Comparative Pharmacology: Theory and Application. In Human Pharmaceuticals in the Environment: Current and Future Perspectives; Brooks, B.W., Huggett, D.B., Eds.; Emerging Topics in Ecotoxicology; Springer: New York, NY, 2012; pp. 85–108 ISBN 9781461434191.

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

Andrew, E. The Huge “Asteroid” Set To Fly Past Earth Today Is Actually A Dead Comet - And It Looks Just Like A Skull! Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/physics/huge-asteroid-set-fly-past-earth-today-actually-dead-comet-and-it-looks-just-skull/ (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 Airport and Airway Trust Fund: Declining Balance Raises Concerns over Ability to Meet Future Demands; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2011;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stone, M.A. A Quantitative Study of Perceptions of Female Air Force Leaders. Doctoral dissertation, University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ, 2008.

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

Crow, K. Read All About It, Every Day for 70 Years. New York Times 2003, 146.

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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