How to format your references using the Journal of Applied Animal Research citation style

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

Crim FF. 2007. Chemistry. Making energy count. Science. 316(5832):1707–1708.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ratnieks FLW, Carreck NL. 2010. Ecology. Clarity on honey bee collapse? Science. 327(5962):152–153.

A journal article with 3 authors

Merlin C, Gegear RJ, Reppert SM. 2009. Antennal circadian clocks coordinate sun compass orientation in migratory monarch butterflies. Science. 325(5948):1700–1704.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Zhang F, Wang Z, Dong W, Sun C, Wang H, Song A, He L, Fang W, Chen F, Teng N. 2014. Transcriptomic and proteomic analysis reveals mechanisms of embryo abortion during chrysanthemum cross breeding. Sci Rep. 4:6536.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghaye T. 2008. Developing the Reflective Healthcare Team. Oxford, UK: Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

An edited book

Bezerra EA. 2014. Synthesizable VHDL Design for FPGAs. Lettnin DV, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Moltó A, Orihuela J, Troyanski S, Valdivia M. 2009. Some Applications. In: Orihuela J, Troyanski S, Valdivia M, editors. A Nonlinear Transfer Technique for Renorming. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 101–116.

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 Applied Animal Research.

Blog post

Andrews R. 2017. How To See Tonight’s Peak Of The Eta Aquariid Meteor Shower. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/how-see-tonights-peak-eta-aquariid-meteor-shower/

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. 2013. Fiscal Year 2013 Agreed-Upon Procedures: Excise Tax Distributions to the Airport and Airway Trust Fund and the Highway Trust Fund. 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

Coleman MJ. 2010. Surface accuracy analysis and mathematical modeling of deployable large aperture elastic antenna reflectors [Doctoral dissertation]. Washington, DC: George Washington University.

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

Reinhart MK. 2010. Kathryn Bertine and George Varhola Jr. New York Times.:ST14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Crim 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Crim 2007; Ratnieks and Carreck 2010).

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

Two authors: (Ratnieks and Carreck 2010)
Three or more authors: (Zhang et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Applied Animal Research
Abbreviation	J. Appl. Anim. Res.
ISSN (print)	0971-2119
ISSN (online)	0974-1844
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology General Veterinary