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

Hawks J (2001) The Y chromosome and the replacement hypothesis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 293: 567.

A journal article with 2 authors

Aragão LEOC, Shimabukuro YE (2010) The incidence of fire in Amazonian forests with implications for REDD. Science (New York, N.Y.) 328: 1275–1278.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lynch VJ, May G, Wagner GP (2011) Regulatory evolution through divergence of a phosphoswitch in the transcription factor CEBPB. Nature 480: 383–386.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Pertel T, Hausmann S, Morger D, Züger S, Guerra J, Lascano J et al. (2011) TRIM5 is an innate immune sensor for the retrovirus capsid lattice. Nature 472: 361–365.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Klir GJ (2005) Uncertainty and Information. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Rousseau C (2008) Mathematics and Technology. Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Kumar RSS, Ferry JG (2014) Prokaryotic Carbonic Anhydrases of Earth’s Environment. In: Frost SC, McKenna R (eds) Carbonic Anhydrase: Mechanism, Regulation, Links to Disease, and Industrial Applications, Subcellular Biochemistry, 77–87. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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 D (2016) Google Used To Ask These Interview Questions, But They’re So Tricky They Were Banned. 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 (1995) NASA’s Earth Observing System: Estimated Funding Requirements. 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

Schulz JL (2015) Factors Affecting Prey Availability and Habitat Usage of Wintering Piping Plovers (Charadrius melodus) in Coastal Louisiana.

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

Vecsey G (2011) U.S. Soccer’s Home And the World’s New Destination. New York Times: B13.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Hawks 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Hawks 2001, Aragão & Shimabukuro 2010).

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

Two authors: (Aragão & Shimabukuro 2010)
Three or more authors: (Pertel et al. 2011)

About the journal

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