How to format your references using the Mammal Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mammal Review. 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

van den Heuvel EPJ (2006) Astronomy. Pulsar magnetospheres and pulsar death. Science (New York, N.Y.) 312: 539–540.

A journal article with 2 authors

Koren I, Feingold G (2013) Adaptive behavior of marine cellular clouds. Scientific reports 3: 2507.

A journal article with 3 authors

Petrides M, Cadoret G, Mackey S (2005) Orofacial somatomotor responses in the macaque monkey homologue of Broca’s area. Nature 435: 1235–1238.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Kroodsma DA, Mayorga J, Hochberg T, Miller NA, Boerder K, Ferretti F et al. (2018) Response to Comment on “Tracking the global footprint of fisheries.” Science (New York, N.Y.) 361.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Grous A (2012) Fracture Mechanics 1. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA.

An edited book

Guo K (2015) Multiplication Operators on the Bergman Space. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Considine RV (2015) Measurement of Circulating Leptin and Soluble Leptin Receptors. In: Sam D-JM (ed) Leptin: Regulation and Clinical Applications, 39–43. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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 Review.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) Man Receives First Scalp And Skull Transplant. IFLScience.

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 (2008) Surface Transportation Programs: Proposals Highlight Key Issues and Challenges in Restructuring the Programs. 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

Krometis L-AH (2009) Microbial partitioning in urban stormwaters.

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

Yee V (2015) Eight Passengers’ Deaths Echo Across the Region and the World. New York Times: A20.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (van den Heuvel 2006).
This sentence cites two references (van den Heuvel 2006, Koren & Feingold 2013).

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

Two authors: (Koren & Feingold 2013)
Three or more authors: (Kroodsma et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mammal Review
Abbreviation	Mamm. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0305-1838
ISSN (online)	1365-2907
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology