How to format your references using the Domestic Animal Endocrinology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Domestic Animal Endocrinology. 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

[1]

Perez DR. Public health and biosecurity. H5N1 debates: hung up on the wrong questions. Science 2012;335:799–801.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Pearson BJ, Doe CQ. Regulation of neuroblast competence in Drosophila. Nature 2003;425:624–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Keenan SW, Engel AS, Elsey RM. The alligator gut microbiome and implications for archosaur symbioses. Sci Rep 2013;3:2877.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Moon RT, Bowerman B, Boutros M, Perrimon N. The promise and perils of Wnt signaling through beta-catenin. Science 2002;296:1644–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Nations S. The Complete Book of Option Spreads and Combinations. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Hansson SO, Hirsch Hadorn G, editors. The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis: Reasoning about Uncertainty. vol. 10. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Shiffman MA. Facial Aging: a Clinical Classification. In: Shiffman MA, Mirrafati SJ, Lam SM, Cueteaux CG, editors. Simplified Facial Rejuvenation, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008, p. 65–7.

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 Domestic Animal Endocrinology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Mass Grave Reveals Organised Violence Among Europe’s First Farmers. IFLScience 2015.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Radio Frequencies: Earlier Coordination Could Improve System Use and Save Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Shrank SM. ShareOne: An iOS resource application for caseworkers: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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

[1]

Vecsey G. A Coach’s Mistake, a Teaching Moment. New York Times 2010:B11.

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	Domestic Animal Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Domest. Anim. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0739-7240
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Endocrinology Food Animals