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. Boyd P. Ocean science. Ironing out algal issues in the Southern Ocean. Science. 2004;304:396–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Kanematsu Y, Takahashi K. Employing Japan’s postdocs. Nature. 2007;447:1028.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hurrell JW, Kushnir Y, Visbeck M. Climate. The North Atlantic oscillation. Science. 2001;291:603–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Stark H, Dube P, Lührmann R, Kastner B. Arrangement of RNA and proteins in the spliceosomal U1 small nuclear ribonucleoprotein particle. Nature. 2001;409:539–42.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Shynk JJ. Mathematical Foundations for Linear Circuits and Systems in Engineering. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2016.

An edited book

1. Bris R, Majernik J, Pancerz K, Zaitseva E, editors. Applications of Computational Intelligence in Biomedical Technology. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Abu-Zurayk M, Brezillon J. Aero-Elastic Multipoint Optimization Using the Coupled Adjoint Approach. In: Dillmann A, Heller G, Krämer E, Kreplin H-P, Nitsche W, Rist U, editors. New Results in Numerical and Experimental Fluid Mechanics IX: Contributions to the 18th STAB/DGLR Symposium, Stuttgart, Germany, 2012. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 45–52.

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. Davis J. Fracking Chemicals Discovered In Drinking Water. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Federal Communications Commission Can Further Improve Its Licensing Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 Apr. Report No.: RCED-83-90.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hong HJ. Acrolein Modification of Human Apolipoprotein A-I Impairs Binding to Phosphatidylglycerol and Lipopolysaccharide of Gram-Negative Bacteria [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Greenhouse L. Justices Accept Question of Prosecutors as Lawyers or Managers. New York Times. 2008 Apr 15;A14.

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
Scope

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