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

Brooks JR. HYDROLOGY. Water, bound and mobile. Science 2015;349:138–139.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brei B, Fish D. Comment on “Parasites as a viability cost of sexual selection in natural populations of mammals.” Science 2003;300:55; author reply 55.

A journal article with 3 authors

Burkle LA, Marlin JC, Knight TM. Plant-pollinator interactions over 120 years: loss of species, co-occurrence, and function. Science 2013;339:1611–1615.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Sebastian SE, Harrison N, Palm E, et al. A multi-component Fermi surface in the vortex state of an underdoped high-Tc superconductor. Nature 2008;454:200–203.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Yamarone R. The Trader’s Guide to Key Economic Indicators. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2012.

An edited book

Parés C, Vázquez C, Coquel F, editors. Advances in Numerical Simulation in Physics and Engineering: Lecture Notes of the XV “Jacques-Louis Lions” Spanish-French School. vol. 3. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Barkeshli K, Khorasani S. Wave Harmonics and Guided Waves. In: Khorasani S, ed. Advanced Electromagnetics and Scattering Theory, Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015:109–210.

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

Andrew D. Creepy, Crawly Maggots Are Actually A Medical Powerhouse. IFLScience 2017. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/creepy-crawly-maggots-are-actually-a-medical-powerhouse/ 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. Response to Specific Questions on the Indian Point Probabilistic Safety Study. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Chatterjee K. A probabilistic mechanistic approach for assessing the rupture frequency of small modular reactor steam generator tubes using uncertain inputs from in-service inspections. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 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

Crow K. Sealed Since ’88, A Condo Garage May Soon See Some Daylight. New York Times 2001:144.

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

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