How to format your references using the Mammal Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mammal Research. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Czeisler CA (2013) Perspective: casting light on sleep deficiency. Nature 497:S13

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhu H, Owen MR (2013) Damped propagation of cell polarization explains distinct PCP phenotypes of epithelial patterning. Sci Rep 3:2528

A journal article with 3 authors

Bushey D, Tononi G, Cirelli C (2011) Sleep and synaptic homeostasis: structural evidence in Drosophila. Science 332:1576–1581

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chao W, Harteneck BD, Liddle JA, et al (2005) Soft X-ray microscopy at a spatial resolution better than 15 nm. Nature 435:1210–1213

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Berthou P, Baudoin C, Gayraud T, Gineste M (2015) Satellite and Terrestrial Hybrid Networks. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Cheng L (ed) (2014) Frontiers and Progress in Multiphase Flow I. Springer International Publishing, Cham

A chapter in an edited book

Vázquez-Poletti JL, Barderas G, Llorente IM, Romero P (2012) A Model for Efficient Onboard Actualization of an Instrumental Cyclogram for the Mars MetNet Mission on a Public Cloud Infrastructure. In: Jónasson K (ed) Applied Parallel and Scientific Computing: 10th International Conference, PARA 2010, Reykjavík, Iceland, June 6-9, 2010, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 33–42

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 Mammal Research.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Upcoming Battery Will Charge Phones And Electric Cars in Minutes. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2009) Metropolitan Planning Organizations: Options Exist to Enhance Transportation Planning Capacity and Federal Oversight. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Demenkoff JH (2014) Evolution and emergence of the masculinities: Epiphanies and epiphenomena of the male athlete and dancer. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute

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

Pilon M (2013) Trainer Denies Giving Banned Drugs to Jamaican Sprinters. New York Times B14

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Czeisler 2013).
This sentence cites two references (Zhu and Owen 2013; Czeisler 2013).

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

Two authors: (Zhu and Owen 2013)
Three or more authors: (Chao et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mammal Research
Abbreviation	Mamm. Res.
ISSN (print)	2199-2401
ISSN (online)	2199-241X
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics