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. Ory J. Scientists and societies. Two-body problem. Nature. 2004;429:788.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gold JI, Shadlen MN. Representation of a perceptual decision in developing oculomotor commands. Nature. 2000;404:390–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Otto S, Furlan RLE, Sanders JKM. Selection and amplification of hosts from dynamic combinatorial libraries of macrocyclic disulfides. Science. 2002;297:590–3.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Arimura Y, Shirayama K, Horikoshi N, Fujita R, Taguchi H, Kagawa W, et al. Crystal structure and stable property of the cancer-associated heterotypic nucleosome containing CENP-A and H3.3. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7115.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Micouin P. Model-Based Systems Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

1. Havelund K, Majumdar R, Palsberg J, editors. Model Checking Software: 15th International SPIN Workshop, Los Angeles, CA, USA, August 10-12, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Broda S, Cavadas S, Ferreira M, Moreira N. Deciding Synchronous Kleene Algebra with Derivatives. In: Drewes F, editor. Implementation and Application of Automata: 20th International Conference, CIAA 2015, Umeå, Sweden, August 18-21, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 49–62.

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. Hale T. Freddie Mercury Gets His Own Asteroid For 70th Birthday. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. DOD Service Academies: Academy Preparatory Schools Need a Clearer Mission and Better Oversight. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992 Mar. Report No.: NSIAD-92-57.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Sewell A. A typology of sampling in hip-hop [Doctoral dissertation]. [Bloomington, IN]: Indiana University; 2013.

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. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Putin Removes Official. New York Times. 2002 Jan 5;A4.

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
Scope

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