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

Calvert P. 2007. Materials science. Printing cells. Science. 318(5848):208–209.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liebman SW, Haber JE. 2013. Retrospective. Fred Sherman (1932-2013). Science. 342(6162):1059.

A journal article with 3 authors

Papp B, Pál C, Hurst LD. 2004. Metabolic network analysis of the causes and evolution of enzyme dispensability in yeast. Nature. 429(6992):661–664.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Penterman R, Klink SI, de Koning H, Nisato G, Broer DJ. 2002. Single-substrate liquid-crystal displays by photo-enforced stratification. Nature. 417(6884):55–58.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Anderson D. 2007. TKO Management! Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Nelson T, Winawer H, editors. 2014. Critical Topics in Family Therapy: AFTA Monograph Series Highlights. Cham: Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Pahre R. 2015. Material Falsehoods: Living a Lie at This Old Fort. In: Robinson M, Silverman H, editors. Encounters with Popular Pasts: Cultural Heritage and Popular Culture. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 61–80.

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

Andrew E. 2015. Corporate Climate Scientists: Advocates For Science Or Protectors Of Status Quo? IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/corporate-climate-scientists-advocates-science-or-protectors-status-quo/

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. 2003. Trends in State Capital Investment in Highways, an E-supplement to GAO-03-744R. 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

Wilson ML. 2017. The Power of Spoken Word: Oral History As Social Work Pedagogy [Doctoral dissertation]. Long Beach, CA: California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kelly D. 2011. Starting Out in the ’70s. New York Times.:BR17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Calvert 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Calvert 2007; Liebman and Haber 2013).

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

Two authors: (Liebman and Haber 2013)
Three or more authors: (Penterman et al. 2002)

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