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

Lovelock J (2003) Gaia: the living Earth. Nature 426: 769–770.

A journal article with 2 authors

Blaser MJ, Kirschner D (2007) The equilibria that allow bacterial persistence in human hosts. Nature 449: 843–849.

A journal article with 3 authors

Galloway KE, Franco E, Smolke CD (2013) Dynamically reshaping signaling networks to program cell fate via genetic controllers. Science (New York, N.Y.) 341: 1235005.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Ivarsson M, Broman C, Sturkell E, Ormö J, Siljeström S, van Zuilen M, Bengtson S (2013) Fungal colonization of an Ordovician impact-induced hydrothermal system. Scientific reports 3: 3487.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Goudon T (2016) Mathematics for Modeling and Scientific Computing. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ferrández Vicente JM, Álvarez-Sánchez JR, de la Paz López F, Toledo-Moreo FJ, Adeli H (eds) (2015) Bioinspired Computation in Artificial Systems: International Work-Conference on the Interplay Between Natural and Artificial Computation, IWINAC 2015, Elche, Spain, June 1-5, 2015, Proceedings, Part II. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Yang J, Liu H (2015) Cadmium Selenide–Platinum Nanocomposites with a Core–Shell Construction. In: Liu H (ed) Metal-Based Composite Nanomaterials, 115–141. 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) Could Ancient Textbooks Be The Source Of The Next Medical Breakthrough? 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 (1999) Student Loans: Default Rates Need To Be Computed More Appropriately. 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

Meng W (2014) Synthesis and design of microwave wideband filters and components.

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 (2003) An Old Friend Returns, Herbs and Fruit In Hand. New York Times: 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lovelock 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Lovelock 2003, Blaser & Kirschner 2007).

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

Two authors: (Blaser & Kirschner 2007)
Three or more authors: (Ivarsson et al. 2013)

About the journal

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