How to format your references using the Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology. 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

1. Emery B. Regulation of oligodendrocyte differentiation and myelination. Science. 2010;330:779–82.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kepecs A, Fishell G. Interneuron cell types are fit to function. Nature. 2014;505:318–26.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Koskinen TT, Aylward AD, Miller S. A stability limit for the atmospheres of giant extrasolar planets. Nature. 2007;450:845–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hayakawa T, Angata T, Lewis AL, Mikkelsen TS, Varki NM, Varki A. A human-specific gene in microglia. Science. 2005;309:1693.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Baker KR. Optimization Modeling with Spreadsheets. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Talent JA, editor. Earth and Life: Global Biodiversity, Extinction Intervals and Biogeographic Perturbations Through Time. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Peeters S. Choosing the Best Workflow. In: Andres C, Anglin S, Beckner M, Buckingham E, Cornell G, Gennick J, et al., editors. Flash Builder and Flash Catalyst: The New Workflow. Berkeley, CA: Apress; 2010. p. 131–85.

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 Science and Biotechnology.

Blog post

1. Davis J. The Inside Of Ancient Fossil Turds Visualized In Impressive 3D [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-inside-of-ancient-fossil-turds-visualized-in-impressive-3d/

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. Federal Communications Commission: Competitive Bidding Procedures. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Jan. Report No.: OGC-98-26.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Jennings S. Hiring, promotions, and identity negotiation of female hiring agents in American corporate retail [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2015.

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. Greenhouse L. The Kennedy Factor On the Roberts Court. New York Times. 2006 Dec 31;42.

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	Journal of Animal Science and Biotechnology
Abbreviation	J. Anim. Sci. Biotechnol.
ISSN (online)	2049-1891
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Food Science Biochemistry Biotechnology