How to format your references using the Porcine Health Management citation style

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

1. Capone DG. Microbiology. Ramping up the heat on nitrogenase. Science. 2006;314:1691–2.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Medford JI, Prasad A. Plant Science. Plant synthetic biology takes root. Science. 2014;346:162–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Garofalo S, Maier ME, di Pellegrino G. Mediofrontal negativity signals unexpected omission of aversive events. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4816.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Partridge GB, Li W, Kamar RI, Liao Y-A, Hulet RG. Pairing and phase separation in a polarized Fermi gas. Science. 2006;311:503–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Tsui JB-Y. Fundamentals of Global Positioning System Receivers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

1. Sanfeliu A, Cortés ML, editors. Progress in Pattern Recognition, Image Analysis and Applications: 10th Iberoamerican Congress on Pattern Recognition, CIARP 2005, Havana, Cuba, November 15-18, 2005. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chantara W, Ho Y-S. Object Searching with Combination of Template Matching. In: Ho Y-S, Sang J, Ro YM, Kim J, Wu F, editors. Advances in Multimedia Information Processing -- PCM 2015: 16th Pacific-Rim Conference on Multimedia, Gwangju, South Korea, September 16-18, 2015, Proceedings, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 32–41.

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 Porcine Health Management.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. From Medical Treatment To Diet And Lifestyle Choice: How To Spot Unreliable Health Research. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Tax Systems Modernization: Progress in Achieving IRS’ Business Vision. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 May. Report No.: T-GGD-96-123.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mullican CD. Multiple Intelligences in the Text: Examining the Presence of Multiple Intelligences Tasks in the Annotated Teacher’s Editions of Four High School United States History Textbooks [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2012.

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

1. Lyman R. Polish Parliament Acts to Upend Nation’s Courts. New York Times. 2017 Jul 22;A1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Porcine Health Management
Abbreviation	Porcine Health Manag.
ISSN (online)	2055-5660
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