How to format your references using the Reproduction in Domestic Animals citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Reproduction in Domestic Animals. 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

Gibson, V. C. (2006). Chemistry. Shuttling polyolefins to a new materials dimension. Science (New York, N.Y.), 312(5774), 703–704.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maxfield, F. R., & Tabas, I. (2005). Role of cholesterol and lipid organization in disease. Nature, 438(7068), 612–621.

A journal article with 3 authors

Garner, E. C., Campbell, C. S., & Mullins, R. D. (2004). Dynamic instability in a DNA-segregating prokaryotic actin homolog. Science (New York, N.Y.), 306(5698), 1021–1025.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Tomasello, M. V., Perra, N., Tessone, C. J., Karsai, M., & Schweitzer, F. (2014). The role of endogenous and exogenous mechanisms in the formation of R&D networks. Scientific Reports, 4, 5679.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Minenna, M. (2016). The Incomplete Currency: The Future of the Euro and Solutions for the Eurozone. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Taylor, J. A. (Ed.). (2016). The Physiology of Exercise in Spinal Cord Injury. Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Tilley, E., Zurbrügg, C., & Lüthi, C. (2010). A Flowstream Approach for Sustainable Sanitation Systems. In B. van Vliet, G. Spaargaren, & P. Oosterveer (Eds.), Social Perspectives on the Sanitation Challenge (pp. 69–86). Springer Netherlands.

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 Reproduction in Domestic Animals.

Blog post

Andrew, D. (2016, July 29). How Your Brain Retrieves A Memory When You Sense Something Familiar. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/how-your-brain-retrieves-a-memory-when-you-sense-something-familiar/

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. (2013). Maritime Security: DHS Could Benefit from Tracking Progress in Implementing the Small Vessel Security Strategy (GAO-14-32). U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Huffman, K. D. (2009). Teacher and administrator perceptions of a balanced school calendar and its effects on students in poverty [Doctoral dissertation]. Lindenwood 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

Blecher, G. (2015, May 31). Berra’s Values Shape Museum’s Mission. New York Times, NJ10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Gibson, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Gibson, 2006; Maxfield & Tabas, 2005).

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

Two authors: (Maxfield & Tabas, 2005)
Three authors: (Garner et al., 2004)
6 or more authors: (Tomasello et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Reproduction in Domestic Animals
Abbreviation	Reprod. Domest. Anim.
ISSN (print)	0936-6768
ISSN (online)	1439-0531
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Biotechnology Endocrinology