How to format your references using the Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition (JAPAN). 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

Cavalleri, A., 2007: Chemistry. All at once. Science (New York, N.Y.)., 318, 755–756.

A journal article with 2 authors

Roberson, E. D.; Mucke, L., 2006: 100 years and counting: prospects for defeating Alzheimer’s disease. Science (New York, N.Y.)., 314, 781–784.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bolmatov, D.; Musaev, E. T.; Trachenko, K., 2013: Symmetry breaking gives rise to energy spectra of three states of matter. Scientific reports., 3, 2794.

A journal article with 20 or more authors

Li, T.; Lin, Y.; Shang, Y.; He, L.; Huang, C.; Szabunio, M.; Yu, G., 2013: Simultaneous measurement of deep tissue blood flow and oxygenation using noncontact diffuse correlation spectroscopy flow-oximeter. Scientific reports., 3, 1358.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Guyader, J. L., 2013: Vibration in Continuous Media. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Gorgulho, A., 2013: Intelligent Financial Portfolio Composition based on Evolutionary Computation Strategies. (Neves, R. F. M. F. & N. C. G. Horta, Eds.)SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sergi, M.; Caboi, F.; Maullu, C.; Orsini, G.; Tonon, G., 2009: Enzymatic techniques for PEGylation of biopharmaceuticals. In: Veronese, F. M. (ed.), PEGylated Protein Drugs: Basic Science and Clinical Applications. Birkhäuser, Basel, pp. 75–88.

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 Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2015, January 8: Neil deGrasse Tyson To Host Late-Night Talk Show. IFLScience. 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, 1990: Job Training Partnership Act: Information on Set-Aside Funding for Assistance to Older Workers ( No. HRD-90-59FS). 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

Meyertholen, A. N., 2014: Blurring the lines: The invention of abstract in German literature since 1800 (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Feeney, K., 2008, March 2: Chalkboard Special: Soup. New York Times., p. NJ8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Cavalleri, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Roberson et al., 2006; Cavalleri, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Roberson et al., 2006)
Three or more authors: (Li et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Animal Physiology and Animal Nutrition
Abbreviation	J. Anim. Physiol. Anim. Nutr. (Berl.)
ISSN (print)	0931-2439
ISSN (online)	1439-0396
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Food Animals