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

Jerrett, M., 2015: Atmospheric science: The death toll from air-pollution sources. Nature., 525, 330–331.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu, Z.; Hoffman, J. E., 2014: Condensed-matter physics: Catching relativistic electrons. Nature., 513, 319–320.

A journal article with 3 authors

Capozza, R.; Barel, I.; Urbakh, M., 2013: Probing and tuning frictional aging at the nanoscale. Scientific reports., 3, 1896.

A journal article with 20 or more authors

Chan, R. C.; Chan, A.; Jeon, M.; Wu, T. F.; Pasqualone, D.; Rougvie, A. E.; Meyer, B. J., 2003: Chromosome cohesion is regulated by a clock gene paralogue TIM-1. Nature., 423, 1002–1009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smith, E. M., 2006: Advances in Thermal Design of Heat Exchangers. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Badve, S.; Gökmen-Polar, Y. (Eds.), 2016: Molecular Pathology of Breast Cancer. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Derrick, J.; Boiten, E. A., 2014: Calculating Refinements. In: Boiten, E. A. (ed.), Refinement in Z and Object-Z: Foundations and Advanced Applications. Springer, London, pp. 129–150.

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

Andrew, E., 2015, July 13: Tiny Worms Get Around Using Slug Guts And Poop. 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, 1993: Exchange Programs: Inventory of International Educational, Cultural, and Training Programs ( No. NSIAD-93-157BR). 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

Allard, L., 2006: Exposure to Low-Level Ionizing Radiation and Risk of Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in Participants of the Fernald Medical Monitoring Program (Doctoral dissertation). University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH.

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., 2016, November 28: Metallica’s ‘Hardwired’ Hits No. 1 on Chart. New York Times., p. C4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Jerrett, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Zhu et al., 2014; Jerrett, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Zhu et al., 2014)
Three or more authors: (Chan et al., 2003)

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