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

Benford, G. (2004) Reality is wilder. Nature 432, 955

A journal article with 2 authors

Forget, A.L. & Kowalczykowski, S.C. (2012) Single-molecule imaging of DNA pairing by RecA reveals a three-dimensional homology search. Nature 482, 423–427

A journal article with 3 authors

Kahn, S.E., Hull, R.L. & Utzschneider, K.M. (2006) Mechanisms linking obesity to insulin resistance and type 2 diabetes. Nature 444, 840–846

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Stoll, M., Cowley, A.W., Jr, Tonellato, P.J., et al. (2001) A genomic-systems biology map for cardiovascular function. Science (New York, N.Y.) 294, 1723–1726

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quinn, J.F. (2013) Dementia. John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

An edited book

Aliev, R.A. (2014) Type-2 Fuzzy Neural Networks and Their Applications. Springer International Publishing.

A chapter in an edited book

Siegel, H. (2012) Epistemological Diversity and Education Research: Much Ado About Nothing Much? In: Education, Culture and Epistemological Diversity: Mapping a Disputed Terrain. Eds C.W. Ruitenberg and D.C. Phillips. Springer Netherlands. pp 65–84

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

Evans, K. (2017) Thieves Can Steal Your Fingerprints From Your Selfies IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/technology/thieves-can-steal-your-fingerprints-from-your-selfies/ [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 (2013) Public Transit: FTA’s Process for Overseeing Compliance with Federal Civil Rights Requirements Incorporates Key Federal Practices (No. GAO-13-697R). 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

Monteiro, K.R. (2012) An experimental study of corrective feedback on synchronous oral computer-mediated communication (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach.

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

Kelly, C. (2000) Doing Business In Small Quarters. New York Times 14WC8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Benford 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Benford 2004; Forget & Kowalczykowski 2012).

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

Two authors: (Forget & Kowalczykowski 2012)
Three or more authors: (Stoll et al. 2001)

About the journal

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