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

Brown, G. C., 2003: Cell biology. NO says yes to mitochondria. Science (New York, N.Y.)., 299, 838–839.

A journal article with 2 authors

Silverman, N.; Paquette, N., 2008: Immunology. The right resident bugs. Science (New York, N.Y.)., 319, 734–735.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baker, C. R.; Hanson-Smith, V.; Johnson, A. D., 2013: Following gene duplication, paralog interference constrains transcriptional circuit evolution. Science (New York, N.Y.)., 342, 104–108.

A journal article with 20 or more authors

Kienast, M.; Kienast, S. S.; Calvert, S. E.; Eglinton, T. I.; Mollenhauer, G.; François, R.; Mix, A. C., 2006: Eastern Pacific cooling and Atlantic overturning circulation during the last deglaciation. Nature., 443, 846–849.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cheng, L.; Lopez-Beltran, A.; Bostwick, D. G., 2012: Bladder Pathology. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Alpay, D.; Vinnikov, V. (Eds.), 2007: System Theory, the Schur Algorithm and Multidimensional Analysis. Operator Theory: Advances and Applications. Birkhäuser, Basel, Vol. 176.

A chapter in an edited book

Rivera, E.; Rodríguez, A., 2008: Competition and Regulation in the Banking Systems of Central America and Mexico: A Comparative Study. In: Schatan, C. & E. Rivera (eds.), Competition Policies in Emerging Economies: Lessons and Challenges from Central America and Mexico. Springer, New York, NY, pp. 97–143.

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

Davis, J., 2016, December 7: Paris Makes All Public Transport Free In A Bid To Tackle The Worst Smog Seen In 10 Years. 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, 1997: Airline Deregulation: Addressing the Air Service Problems of Some Communities ( No. T-RCED-97-187). 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

Rodriguez, E. P., 2014: Curriculum development for nursing assistants: Pressure ulcer prevention module (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Liptak, A.; Walsh, M. W., 2016, June 14: Justices Reject Puerto Rico Law in Case on Restructuring Debt. New York Times., p. B3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brown, 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Brown, 2003; Silverman et al., 2008).

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

Two authors: (Silverman et al., 2008)
Three or more authors: (Kienast et al., 2006)

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