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. McNally RJ. Psychology. Psychiatric casualties of war. Science. 2006;313:923–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Meguro A, Sato Y. Salicylic acid antagonizes abscisic acid inhibition of shoot growth and cell cycle progression in rice. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4555.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bennett VC, Brandon AD, Nutman AP. Coupled 142Nd-143Nd isotopic evidence for Hadean mantle dynamics. Science. 2007;318:1907–10.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. McDonald D, Wu L, Bohks SM, KewalRamani VN, Unutmaz D, Hope TJ. Recruitment of HIV and its receptors to dendritic cell-T cell junctions. Science. 2003;300:1295–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Prutchi D, Prutchi SR. Exploring Quantum Physics Through Hands-On Projects. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

1. Karl HA, Scarlett L, Vargas-Moreno JC, Flaxman M, editors. Restoring Lands - Coordinating Science, Politics and Action: Complexities of Climate and Governance. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chabin J, Halfeld Ferrari M, Musicante MA, Réty P. Conservative Type Extensions for XML Data. In: Hameurlain A, Küng J, Wagner R, editors. Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems IX. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 65–94.

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. Carpineti A. Galaxy Collisions Might Be Shrouding Black Holes In Dust [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/galaxy-collisions-might-be-shrouding-black-holes-in-dust/

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. Improvements Needed in the Migrant Education Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Aug. Report No.: HRD-79-100.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Graham SM. Conditions that Prompt the Migrant Worker Population to Access Pre-Hospital Emergency Care in Place of Health Centers in Qatar [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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. Koblin J. ‘Central Park Jogger’ Series on Netflix. New York Times. 2017 Jul 6;C3.

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