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

Buriak JM. Chemistry. Chemistry with nanoscale perfection. Science 2004;304:692–693.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kai T, Spradling A. Differentiating germ cells can revert into functional stem cells in Drosophila melanogaster ovaries. Nature 2004;428:564–569.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bryden HL, McDonagh EL, King BA. Changes in ocean water mass properties: oscillations or trends? Science 2003;300:2086–2088.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Du L, Lei DY, Yuan G, et al. Mapping plasmonic near-field profiles and interferences by surface-enhanced Raman scattering. Sci Rep 2013;3:3064.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Han CC, Akcasu AZ. Scattering and Dynamics of Polymers. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd, 2011.

An edited book

Kloos CD, Gillet D, Crespo García RM, et al., editors. Towards Ubiquitous Learning: 6th European Conference of Technology Enhanced Learning, EC-TEL 2011, Palermo, Italy, September 20-23, 2011. Proceedings. vol. 6964. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Geeraerts G, Heussner A, Praveen M, et al. ω-Petri Nets. In: Colom J-M, Desel J, eds. Application and Theory of Petri Nets and Concurrency: 34th International Conference, PETRI NETS 2013, Milan, Italy, June 24-28, 2013. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013:49–69.

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

Carpineti A. Astronomers Peer Back In Time At A Supernova Before It Exploded. IFLScience 2016. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-peer-back-in-time-at-a-supernova-before-it-exploded/ Accessed October 30, 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. School Lunch Program: Buy American Procedures at Commodity Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kraka EK. Assessment of herbicides for control of non-native species: Italian ryegrass (Lolium perenne spp. multiflorum ), tropical spiderwort (Commelina benghalensis), and tropical soda apple (Solanum viarum). Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, 2012.

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

Qiu L. On What He Really Said, and Whom He Is Blaming for It. New York Times 2017:A13.

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