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

Taylor, P. (2008) Personal genomes: when consent gets in the way. Nature 456, 32–33

A journal article with 2 authors

Tomita, M. & Murakami, M. (2003) High-temperature superconductor bulk magnets that can trap magnetic fields of over 17 tesla at 29 K. Nature 421, 517–520

A journal article with 3 authors

Purdy, T.P., Peterson, R.W. & Regal, C.A. (2013) Observation of radiation pressure shot noise on a macroscopic object. Science (New York, N.Y.) 339, 801–804

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Xia, Z., Zhang, Y., Molokeev, M.S., et al. (2013) Linear structural evolution induced tunable photoluminescence in clinopyroxene solid-solution phosphors. Scientific reports 3, 3310

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tms (2014) TMS 2014 Supplemental Proceedings. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

König, A., Dengel, A., Hinkelmann, K., et al. (Eds.) (2011) Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems: 15th International Conference, KES 2011, Kaiserslautern, Germany, September 12-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part I, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhang, F. & DiNunzio, J.C. (2012) Solubilized Formulations. In: Formulating Poorly Water Soluble Drugs, AAPS Advances in the Pharmaceutical Sciences Series. Eds R.O. Williams III, A.B. Watts, et al. Springer. pp 171–208

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

Hale, T. (2017) Why Do So Many People Sneeze When They Look At The Sun? IFLScience [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 (2003) Electronic Government: Progress and Challenges in Implementing the Office of Personnel Management’s Initiatives (No. GAO-03-1169T). 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

Sewell, A. (2013) A typology of sampling in hip-hop (Doctoral dissertation). Indiana University.

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

Kenigsberg, B. (2017) Teachable Moments About Corruption. New York Times C6

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Taylor 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Taylor 2008; Tomita & Murakami 2003).

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

Two authors: (Tomita & Murakami 2003)
Three or more authors: (Xia et al. 2013)

About the journal

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