How to format your references using the Mammalian Biology citation style

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

Alvarez, M., 2007. A question of supply and demand. Nature 445, 124.

A journal article with 2 authors

Martincorena, I., Campbell, P.J., 2015. Somatic mutation in cancer and normal cells. Science 349, 1483–1489.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, L., Wang, J., Bonaccurso, E., 2013. Conductivity of individual particles measured by a microscopic four-point-probe method. Sci. Rep. 3, 1991.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lim, P.-E., Tan, J., Eamsobhana, P., Yong, H.S., 2013. Distinct genetic clades of Malaysian Copera damselflies and the phylogeny of platycnemine subfamilies. Sci. Rep. 3, 2977.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pavé, A., 2012. Modeling Living Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Hutson, J.M., Warne, G.L., Grover, S.R. (Eds.), 2012. Disorders of Sex Development: An Integrated Approach to Management. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Taneja, P., Vellinga, T., Ros, R., 2014. Role of Flexibility in Sustainable Port Development, in: Gheorghe, A.V., Masera, M., Katina, P.F. (Eds.), Infranomics: Sustainability, Engineering Design and Governance, Topics in Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 41–53.

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 Mammalian Biology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2016. Elon Musk Reveals His “Master Plan” To Rule The Electric World [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/elon-musk-reveals-his-master-plan-to-rule-the-electric-world/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2014. Spectrum Management: FCC’s Use and Enforcement of Buildout Requirements (No. GAO-14-236). 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

Decker, K.M., 2013. A study of relationships between counselor education, social justice advocacy competence, and likelihood to advocate (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2004. World Briefing | Asia: China And Russia Settle Last Border Dispute. New York Times A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Alvarez, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Alvarez, 2007; Martincorena and Campbell, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Martincorena and Campbell, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Lim et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mammalian Biology
Abbreviation	Mamm. Biol.
ISSN (print)	1616-5047
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics