How to format your references using the Mammalogy Notes citation style

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

Brown RH. 2009. Medicine. A reinnervating microRNA. Science (New York, NY). 326(5959):1494–1495.

A journal article with 2 authors

Solomon TH, Mezić I. 2003. Uniform resonant chaotic mixing in fluid flows. Nature. 425(6956):376–380.

A journal article with 3 authors

Orihara Y, Kamogawa M, Nagao T. 2014. Preseismic changes of the level and temperature of confined groundwater related to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. Scientific reports. 4:6907.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Grishchuk EL, Molodtsov MI, Ataullakhanov FI, McIntosh JR. 2005. Force production by disassembling microtubules. Nature. 438(7066):384–388.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Murphy R. 2010. Dynamic Assessment, Intelligence and Measurement. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Meheus J, Nickles T, editors. 2009. Models of Discovery and Creativity. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands (Origins: Studies in the Sources of Scientific Creativity).

A chapter in an edited book

Beardall J, Raven JA. 2016. Carbon Acquisition by Microalgae. In: Borowitzka MA, Beardall J, Raven JA, editors. The Physiology of Microalgae. Cham: Springer International Publishing. p. 89–99.

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 Mammalogy Notes.

Blog post

Fang J. 2016 Jun 9. Bearded Dragons Can Change The Color Of Specific Body Parts. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/bearded-dragons-can-change-the-color-of-specific-body-parts/. Accessed on 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. 1976. Construction of a Computer Facilities Building by the Social Security Administration: Justification and Alternatives. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: HRD-77-8.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Peacock C. 2012. Design science research toward designing/prototyping a repeatable model for testing location management (LM) algorithms for wireless networking [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University.

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

Tappin B, Van Der Leer L, Mckay R. 2017 May 27. Your Opinion Is Set in Stone. New York Times.:SR8.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Brown 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Solomon and Mezić 2003; Brown 2009).

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

Two authors: (Solomon and Mezić 2003)
Three or more authors: (Grishchuk et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mammalogy Notes
ISSN (online)	2382-3704
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