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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Animal Science and Technology. 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. Ledford H. Turning back the clock. Nature. 2007;445:249.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Nesbit J, Bradford M. 2008 Visualization Challenge. Science. 2008;321:1767.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Stairs IH, Lyne AG, Shemar SL. Evidence for free precession in a pulsar. Nature. 2000;406:484–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Navarro L, Dunoyer P, Jay F, Arnold B, Dharmasiri N, Estelle M, et al. A plant miRNA contributes to antibacterial resistance by repressing auxin signaling. Science. 2006;312:436–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Brown C. Fibonacci Analysis. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Maulik N, Karagiannis T, editors. Molecular mechanisms and physiology of disease: Implications for Epigenetics and Health. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Xue S-W, Tang Y-Y, Zhang L-H. Network Organization of Information Process in Young Adults’ Brain. In: Sun F, Hu D, Liu H, editors. Foundations and Practical Applications of Cognitive Systems and Information Processing: Proceedings of the First International Conference on Cognitive Systems and Information Processing, Beijing, China, Dec 2012 (CSIP2012). Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014. p. 35–43.

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 Technology.

Blog post

1. Hamilton K. The New £5 Note Contains Animal Fat – And Vegetarians Are Furious [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/the-new-5-note-contains-animal-fat-and-vegetarians-are-furious/

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. Charter Schools: New Charter Schools Across the Country and in the District of Columbia Face Similar Start-Up Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Aug. Report No.: GAO-03-899.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kelleher A. Gendered Intent to Turnover Resulting from Workplace Bullying in Nursing and Medical Fields [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 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. Hubbard B. As Syrian War Drags On, Assad’s Grip Tightens. New York Times. 2017 Sep 25;A1.

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 Technology
Abbreviation	J. Anim. Sci. Technol.
ISSN (online)	2055-0391
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