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. Perutz RN. Chemistry. A catalytic foothold for fluorocarbon reactions. Science. 2008;321:1168–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ostfeld RS, Keesing F. Ecology. Oh the locusts sang, then they dropped dead. Science. 2004;306:1488–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Diddams SA, Hollberg L, Mbele V. Molecular fingerprinting with the resolved modes of a femtosecond laser frequency comb. Nature. 2007;445:627–30.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Cheng Y, Zhang H, Varanasi CV, Liu J. Highly efficient oxygen reduction electrocatalysts based on winged carbon nanotubes. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3195.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Szczecinski L, Alvarado A. Bit-Interleaved Coded Modulation. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Peterson DL, Vose JM, Patel-Weynand T, editors. Climate Change and United States Forests. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kim S-H, Bao Y, Horan E, Kim M, Cohen AS. Gauss–Hermite Quadrature in Marginal Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Item Parameters. In: van der Ark LA, Bolt DM, Wang W-C, Douglas JA, Chow S-M, editors. Quantitative Psychology Research: The 79th Annual Meeting of the Psychometric Society, Madison, Wisconsin, 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 43–58.

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. How Do You Know You’re Not Living In A Computer Simulation? 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. Airport Financing: Annual Funding As Much As $3 Billion Less Than Planned Development. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Feb. Report No.: T-RCED-99-84.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Allard L. Exposure to Low-Level Ionizing Radiation and Risk of Leukemia and Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma in Participants of the Fernald Medical Monitoring Program [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 2006.

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. Vecsey G. U.S. Roster Soap Opera Settled on Daytime TV. New York Times. 2010 May 27;B12.

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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