How to format your references using the Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association (JAAHA). 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

Hemingway J. Malaria: Fifteen years of interventions. Nature 2015;526:198–199.

A journal article with 2 authors

Knight JC, Russell PSJ. Applied optics. New ways to guide light. Science 2002;296:276–277.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang M, Vijayraghavan S, Goldman-Rakic PS. Selective D2 receptor actions on the functional circuitry of working memory. Science 2004;303:853–856.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Siegert MJ, Welch B, Morse D, et al. Ice flow direction change in interior West Antarctica. Science 2004;305:1948–1951.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Equipment Testing Procedures Committee. Positive Displacement Pumps. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2007.

An edited book

Minati G. Collective Beings. Boston, MA: Springer US, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Ritter D, Herrmann C. A Graph API for Complex Business Network Query and Traversal. In: Dua S, Gangopadhyay A, Thulasiraman P, et al., eds. Information Systems, Technology and Management: 6th International Conference, ICISTM 2012, Grenoble, France, March 28-30, 2012. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012:52–63.

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 the American Animal Hospital Association.

Blog post

Taub B. Here’s Why The Texture Of Some Food Grosses Us Out. IFLScience 2016.

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. Airlift Requirements: Commercial Freighters Can Help Meet Requirements at Greatly Reduced Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Burke DM. Enhancing the patient safety culture of ABSN students through instruction on medical error recovery. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2014.

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

Saslow L. Filling the Child Care Breach. New York Times 2008:NJ3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

This sentence cites one reference ¹.
This sentence cites two references ^1,2.
This sentence cites four references ^1–4.

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of the American Animal Hospital Association
ISSN (print)	0587-2871
ISSN (online)	1547-3317
Scope