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

Abbott, A. 2003. Danish biotech centre faces axe. Nature 422:105.

A journal article with 2 authors

Fuller, M. T., and A. C. Spradling. 2007. Male and female Drosophila germline stem cells: two versions of immortality. Science (New York, N.Y.) 316:402–404.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, X., R. L. Gross, and A. G. Suits. 2001. “Heavy electron” photoelectron spectroscopy: rotationally resolved ion pair imaging of CH3+. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294:2527–2529.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Cheng, C., A. Amini, C. Zhu, Z. Xu, H. Song, and N. Wang. 2014. Enhanced photocatalytic performance of TiO2-ZnO hybrid nanostructures. Scientific reports 4:4181.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bertocchi, M., S. L. Schwartz, and W. T. Ziemba. 2010. Optimizing the Aging, Retirement, and Pensions Dilemma. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Knobloch, P. (ed.). 2015. Boundary and Interior Layers, Computational and Asymptotic Methods - BAIL 2014. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Bani-Ahmad, S., and G. Ozsoyoglu. 2007. Improved Publication Scores for Online Digital Libraries Via Research Pyramids. Pp. 50–62 in Research and Advanced Technology for Digital Libraries: 11th European Conference, ECDL 2007, Budapest, Hungary, September 16-21, 2007. Proceedings (L. Kovács, N. Fuhr & C. Meghini, eds.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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. 2017. These Super Slow-Mo Videos Show A Viper Strike In All Its Glory. IFLScience. IFLScience. <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/these-super-slow-mo-videos-show-viper-strike-all-its-glory/> (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. 1994. [Comments on FAA Employee’s Claim for Real Estate Expenses]. 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

Collinsworth, B. M. 2014. Hospital to housing: A grant proposal for specialized discharge planning services for people who are homeless. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, 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

Murphy, M. J. O. 2015. A Look at Past Stories and Articles in The Times. New York Times:C26.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Abbott 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Abbott 2003; Fuller and Spradling 2007).

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

Two authors: (Fuller and Spradling 2007)
Three or more authors: (Cheng et al. 2014)

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

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