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

Whipple, C. 2012. Plant science. Defining the plant germ line--nature or nurture? Science (New York, N.Y.) 337:301–302.

A journal article with 2 authors

Donovan, P. J., and J. Gearhart. 2001. The end of the beginning for pluripotent stem cells. Nature 414:92–97.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yelshanskaya, M. V., M. Li, and A. I. Sobolevsky. 2014. Structure of an agonist-bound ionotropic glutamate receptor. Science (New York, N.Y.) 345:1070–1074.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Blackburn, G. M., N. H. Williams, S. J. Gamblin, and S. J. Smerdon. 2003. Comment on “The pentacovalent phosphorus intermediate of a phosphoryl transfer reaction.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 301:1184; author reply 1184.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Parashar, R. K. 2008. Reaction Mechanisms in Organic Synthesis. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., West Sussex, United Kingdom.

An edited book

Giacobini, M. (ed.). 2007. Applications of Evolutionary Computing: EvoWorkshops 2007: EvoCoMnet, EvoFIN, EvoIASP,EvoINTERACTION, EvoMUSART, EvoSTOC and EvoTransLog. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Iwahori, Y., K. Tatematsu, T. Nakamura, S. Fukui, R. J. Woodham, and K. Kasugai. 2015. 3D Shape Recovery from Endoscope Image Based on Both Photometric and Geometric Constraints. Pp. 65–80 in Knowledge-Based Information Systems in Practice (J. W. Tweedale, L. C. Jain, J. Watada & R. J. Howlett, eds.). Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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

Taub, B. 2016. United Nations To Get Tough On Killer Robots In 2017. IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/technology/united-nations-get-tough-killer-robots-2017/> (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. 1992. NASA Procurement: Opportunities to Improve Contract Management. 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

Boudreau, M.-L. 2014. Chanter en français en Louisiane: Du passé vers le futur. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Vecsey, G. 2012. A Rivalry to Add to the City’s Rich History. New York Times:D1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Whipple 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Donovan and Gearhart 2001; Whipple 2012).

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

Two authors: (Donovan and Gearhart 2001)
Three or more authors: (Blackburn et al. 2003)

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