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

Goldin, D. S. (2000). Contributions to the u.s. Space program. Science (New York, N.Y.), 288(5474), 2131c.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hanahan, D., & Weinberg, R. A. (2008). Retrospective: Judah Folkman (1933-2008). Science (New York, N.Y.), 319(5866), 1055.

A journal article with 3 authors

Copeland, N. G., Jenkins, N. A., & O’Brien, S. J. (2002). Genomics. Mmu 16--comparative genomic highlights. Science (New York, N.Y.), 296(5573), 1617–1618.

A journal article with 21 or more authors

Liu, W., Tanasa, B., Tyurina, O. V., Zhou, T. Y., Gassmann, R., Liu, W. T., Ohgi, K. A., Benner, C., Garcia-Bassets, I., Aggarwal, A. K., Desai, A., Dorrestein, P. C., Glass, C. K., & Rosenfeld, M. G. (2010). PHF8 mediates histone H4 lysine 20 demethylation events involved in cell cycle progression. Nature, 466(7305), 508–512.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Posudin, Y. (2014). Methods of Measuring Environmental Parameters. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Soriano, E., & Marco-Contelles, J. (Eds.). (2011). Computational Mechanisms of Au and Pt Catalyzed Reactions (Vol. 302). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Louden, R., Fontaine, M., Martin, G. A., Daly, J., & Schatz, S. (2011). User Interface and Information Management of Scenarios. In M. J. Smith & G. Salvendy (Eds.), Human Interface and the Management of Information. Interacting with Information: Symposium on Human Interface 2011, Held as Part of HCI International 2011, Orlando, FL, USA, July 9-14, 2011, Proceedings, Part I (pp. 30–39). Springer.

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

Luntz, S. (2014, June 27). The Invisible Beauty of Wireless Networks. IFLScience; IFLScience.

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). Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics Education: Governmentwide Strategy Needed to Better Manage Overlapping Programs (GAO-13-529T). 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

Dickson, B. (2008). Yielding architecture: A manifesto for [urban + agri]culture [Doctoral dissertation]. University of Maryland, College Park.

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

Cooper, H., Gordon, M. R., & Schmitt, E. (2017, June 11). Defense Chief Maintains Distance From President. New York Times, A14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Goldin, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Goldin, 2000; Hanahan & Weinberg, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Hanahan & Weinberg, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Liu et al., 2010)

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