How to format your references using the Mammalia citation style

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

Caruana, C. (2005). An eastern promise of regeneration. Nature 435(7044): 998–999.

A journal article with 2 authors

Phillips, P. and Balatsky, A.V. (2007). Physics. Cracking the supersolid. Science 316(5830): 1435–1436.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhowmick, N.A., Neilson, E.G., and Moses, H.L. (2004). Stromal fibroblasts in cancer initiation and progression. Nature 432(7015): 332–337.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Gumenyuk, R., Melkumov, M.A., Khopin, V.F., Dianov, E.M., and Okhotnikov, O.G. (2014). Effect of absorption recovery in bismuth-doped silica glass at 1450 nm on soliton grouping in fiber laser. Sci. Rep. 4: 7044.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mamishev, A. and Williams, S. (2010). Technical Writing for Teams. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ramirez, D., Ren, J., Jones, K.D., and Lamm, H. (Eds.). (2014). Environmental Sustainability Issues in the South Texas–Mexico Border Region. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Koch, M. and Pauls, K. (2006). Engineering Self-protection for Autonomous Systems. In: Baresi L. and Heckel R. (Eds.) Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 9th International Conference, FASE 2006, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2006, Vienna, Austria, March 27-28, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 33–47.

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 Mammalia.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2014). 55 million-year-old ancestor of lions, tigers, and bears (oh my!) has been discovered. IFLScience, Available at: <https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/55-million-year-old-ancestor-lions-tigers-and-bears-oh-my-has-been-discovered/> (Accessed 30 October 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. (1973). Propriety of Additional Reimbursement for Shipment of Household Effects. 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

Corbin-Staton, A.P. (2009). Contexts of parental involvement: An interpretive synthesis of qualitative literature using the meta-interpretation method. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Hollander, S. (2002). Everybody Into the Pool. New York Times D6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Caruana 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Caruana 2005; Phillips and Balatsky 2007).

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

Two authors: (Phillips and Balatsky 2007)
Three or more authors: (Gumenyuk et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mammalia
ISSN (print)	0025-1461
ISSN (online)	1864-1547
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