How to format your references using the Journal of Small Animal Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Small Animal Practice (JSAP). 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

Sims, I.R. (2011) Chemistry. Arranging reactive meetings of cold radicals. Science (New York, N.Y.) 334, 1506–1507

A journal article with 2 authors

Reyes, N. & Gadsby, D.C. (2006) Ion permeation through the Na+,K+-ATPase. Nature 443, 470–474

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhu, T., Satoh, T. & Kato, K. (2014) Structural insight into substrate recognition by the endoplasmic reticulum folding-sensor enzyme: crystal structure of third thioredoxin-like domain of UDP-glucose:glycoprotein glucosyltransferase. Scientific reports 4, 7322

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Cowan, T., Cai, W., Purich, A., et al. (2013) Forcing of anthropogenic aerosols on temperature trends of the sub-thermocline southern Indian Ocean. Scientific reports 3, 2245

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Albalate, A. & Minker, W. (2013) Semi-Supervised and Unsupervised Machine Learning. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Ferraz Dias de Moraes, M.A. (2014) Production of Ethanol from Sugarcane in Brazil: From State Intervention to a Free Market, Natural Resource Management and Policy. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Apsel, A., Wang, X. & Dokania, R. (2014) Pulse Coupled Oscillator Networks. In: Design of Ultra-Low Power Impulse Radios, Analog Circuits and Signal Processing. Eds X. Wang and R. Dokania. Springer. pp 77–93

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 Small Animal Practice.

Blog post

Luntz, S. (2016) Star Too Young For Planets Turns Out To Have One IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/space/star-too-young-planets-turns-out-have-one/ [accessed 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 (1980) U.S.-Japan Cooperative Efforts in Energy Research and Development (No. ID-80-36). 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

Allen, S.D. (2014) Putting out fires: How communication professionals understand and practice conflict resolution (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park.

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. (2009) Weather Doesn’t Dampen Latest Heart-Stopper in the Bronx. New York Times SP3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sims 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Reyes & Gadsby 2006; Sims 2011).

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

Two authors: (Reyes & Gadsby 2006)
Three or more authors: (Cowan et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Small Animal Practice
ISSN (print)	0022-4510
ISSN (online)	1748-5827
Scope