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

Blow, N. (2009). Transcriptomics: The digital generation. Nature, 458(7235), 239–242.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schwabe, R. F., & Wang, T. C. (2012). Cancer. Bacteria deliver a genotoxic hit. Science (New York, N.Y.), 338(6103), 52–53.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liu, L., Spasojevic, S., & Gurnis, M. (2008). Reconstructing Farallon plate subduction beneath North America back to the Late Cretaceous. Science (New York, N.Y.), 322(5903), 934–938.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Lange, P. F., Wartosch, L., Jentsch, T. J., & Fuhrmann, J. C. (2006). ClC-7 requires Ostm1 as a beta-subunit to support bone resorption and lysosomal function. Nature, 440(7081), 220–223.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Niven, P. R. (2014). Balanced Scorecard Evolution. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Wang, R., & Pan, X. (Eds.). (2016). Advances in Cognitive Neurodynamics (V): Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Cognitive Neurodynamics - 2015 (1st ed. 2016). Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Demetriades, A. K., Ringel, F., & Meyer, B. (2014). Cervical Disc Arthroplasty: A Critical Review and Appraisal of the Latest Available Evidence. In J. Schramm (Ed.), Advances and Technical Standards in Neurosurgery: Volume 41 (pp. 107–129). Springer International Publishing.

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, E. (2015, August 5). Hubble Witnesses The Dying Moments Of A Star. IFLScience; IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/hubble-witnesses-dying-moments-star/

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. (2016). Space Acquisitions: Challenges Facing DOD as it Changes Approaches to Space Acquisitions (GAO-16-471T). 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

To, K. S. (2017). Loss of Promoter Methylation is Correlated with mRNA Induction of Senescence Upregulated Gene UGT78D1 [Doctoral dissertation]. California State University, Long Beach.

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

Wines, M., & Fernandez, M. (2016, May 2). Stricter Rules Over Voter IDs Reshape Races. New York Times, A1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Blow, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Blow, 2009; Schwabe & Wang, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Schwabe & Wang, 2012)
Three authors: (Liu et al., 2008)
6 or more authors: (Lange et al., 2006)

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