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. Biemann K. Astrochemistry: Complex organic matter in Titan’s aerosols? Nature. 2006;444:E6; disccussion E6-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Rubin AF, Green P. Comment on “The consensus coding sequences of human breast and colorectal cancers.” Science. 2007;317:1500.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Pierce SE, Clack JA, Hutchinson JR. Three-dimensional limb joint mobility in the early tetrapod Ichthyostega. Nature. 2012;486:523–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. He Q, Cheng P, Yang Y, Wang L, Gardner KH, Liu Y. White collar-1, a DNA binding transcription factor and a light sensor. Science. 2002;297:840–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Raj PP, Erdine S. Pain-Relieving Procedures. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

1. Montanari U, Sannella D, Bruni R, editors. Trustworthy Global Computing: Second Symposium, TGC 2006, Lucca, Italy, November 7-9, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Drago EC. The Physical Dynamics of the River–Lake Floodplain System. In: Iriondo MH, Paggi JC, Parma MJ, editors. The Middle Paraná River: Limnology of a Subtropical Wetland. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 83–122.

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. O`Callaghan J. One Of Earth’s Closest Failed Stars May Actually Be A Rogue Planet. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017.

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. Air Traffic Control: Information Concerning Equipment Outages at Two Kansas City Area Facilities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Aug. Report No.: RCED-98-256R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Pearson RS. Relationship Banking in a Competitive Environment With and Without Information Sharing: The Importance of Credit Bureaus in Microfinance [Doctoral dissertation]. [Columbus, OH]: Ohio State University; 2008.

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. Leland J. The ‘Oldest Old’ Brave Another Year. New York Times. 2016 Dec 30;MB1.

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

Research and Writing Guides