How to format your references using the Journal of Mammalogy citation style

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

Sarmiento, E. E. 2010. Comment on the paleobiology and classification of Ardipithecus ramidus. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328:1105; author reply 1105.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schmidt, M., and H. Lipson. 2009. Distilling free-form natural laws from experimental data. Science (New York, N.Y.) 324:81–85.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whittier, S. K., A. C. Hengge, and J. P. Loria. 2013. Conformational motions regulate phosphoryl transfer in related protein tyrosine phosphatases. Science (New York, N.Y.) 341:899–903.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Treusch, S. et al. 2011. Functional links between Aβ toxicity, endocytic trafficking, and Alzheimer’s disease risk factors in yeast. Science (New York, N.Y.) 334:1241–1245.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sobel, A. 2009. All for One. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Fakhfakh, T., W. Bartelmus, F. Chaari, R. Zimroz, and M. Haddar (eds.). 2012. Condition Monitoring of Machinery in Non-Stationary Operations: Proceedings of the Second International Conference “Condition Monitoring of Machinery in Non-Stationnary Operations” CMMNO’2012. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sunar, F. 2008. The Importance Of Itu-Cscrs For Natural Disaster Monitoring: A Case Study – Flooding In The Maritsa River. Pp. 83–89 in Integration of Information for Environmental Security (H. G. Coskun, H. K. Cigizoglu & M. D. Maktav, eds.). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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 Mammalogy.

Blog post

Andrew, D. 2017. A Supercomputer Just Made The World’s First AI-Created Film Trailer – Here’s How Well It Did. IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/technology/a-supercomputer-just-made-the-worlds-first-aicreated-film-trailer-heres-how-well-it-did/> (30 October 2018).

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. 1986. ADP Acquisitions: Patent Automation Encountering Major Planning and Procurement Problems. 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

Navolio, L. M. 2004. The process of individuation as embodied in symbols, images, and alchemical motifs: A psychological study based on twelve paintings by Remedios Varo. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute, Carpinteria, 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

Kingman, K. 2007. Needle and Thread and the Chinatown Night. New York Times:14CY3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sarmiento 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Schmidt and Lipson 2009; Sarmiento 2010).

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

Two authors: (Schmidt and Lipson 2009)
Three or more authors: (Treusch et al. 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mammalogy
Abbreviation	J. Mammal.
ISSN (print)	0022-2372
ISSN (online)	1545-1542
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation