How to format your references using the Journal of Dairy Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Dairy Science (JDS). 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

Lawrence, P.A. 2008. Retiring retirement. Nature 453:588–590.

A journal article with 2 authors

Federman, S.R., and E.D. Young. 2009. Comment on “Experimental test of self-shielding in vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of CO”. Science 324:1516; author reply 1516.

A journal article with 3 authors

Roychowdhury, T., A. Vishnoi, and A. Bhattacharya. 2013. Next-Generation Anchor Based Phylogeny (NexABP): constructing phylogeny from next-generation sequencing data. Sci. Rep. 3:2634.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Chen, L., W. Chen, X. Qian, Y. Fang, and N. Zhu. 2014. Liquiritigenin alleviates mechanical and cold hyperalgesia in a rat neuropathic pain model. Sci. Rep. 4:5676.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gwynne, P. 2017. World Religions in Practice. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Boulter, C.J., M.J. Reiss, and D.L. Sanders eds. . 2015. Darwin-Inspired Learning. New Directions in Mathematics and Science Education. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Chan, G., and B.G. Neel. 2016. Role of PTPN11 (SHP2) in Cancer. B.G. Neel and N.K. Tonks, ed. Springer, New York, NY.

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 Dairy Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. These Creepy X-Rays Will Make You Look At People In A Whole New Light. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/these-creepy-x-rays-will-make-you-look-people-whole-new-light/.

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. 1987. ADP Budget: Information on Two IRS Computer Projects. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Keith, A. 2017. Engagement and Temporary Teams: Considerations for Value Engineering Study Teams and Facilitators. Doctoral dissertation Thesis. Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA.

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

Hardy, M. 2017. After Storm, Houston Hopes to Regain Tourism Momentum. New York Times TR2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lawrence, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Lawrence, 2008; Federman and Young, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Federman and Young, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Chen et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Dairy Science
Abbreviation	J. Dairy Sci.
ISSN (print)	0022-0302
ISSN (online)	1525-3198
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Food Science Genetics