How to format your references using the Small Ruminant Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Small Ruminant Research. 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	Download the output style file
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

Stein, L., 2002. Creating a bioinformatics nation. Nature 417, 119–120.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cane, M.A., Molnar, P., 2001. Closing of the Indonesian seaway as a precursor to east African aridification around 3-4 million years ago. Nature 411, 157–162.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bylicka, B., Chruściński, D., Maniscalco, S., 2014. Non-Markovianity and reservoir memory of quantum channels: a quantum information theory perspective. Sci. Rep. 4, 5720.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Munshi, N., Agalioti, T., Lomvardas, S., Merika, M., Chen, G., Thanos, D., 2001. Coordination of a transcriptional switch by HMGI(Y) acetylation. Science 293, 1133–1136.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aasma, A., Dutta, H., Natarajan, P.N., 2017. An Introductory Course in Summability Theory. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Jiao, X., Weill, J.-C. (Eds.), 2013. Proceedings of the 21st International Meshing Roundtable. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Flint, K.J., Needham, D., 2007. ‘Framing’ Lifelong Learning in the Twenty-First Century: Towards a Way of Thinking, in: Aspin, D.N. (Ed.), Philosophical Perspectives on Lifelong Learning, Lifelong Learning Book Series. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 85–105.

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 Small Ruminant Research.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. New Fossil Evidence Suggests There Have Been 6 Mass Extinctions, Not 5 [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-fossil-evidence-suggests-there-were-6-mass-extinctions-not-5/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1988. Transition Series: Information Technology Issues (No. OCG-89-6TR). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Kong, W., 2010. The Role of MicroRNA-155 in Human Breast Cancer (Doctoral dissertation). University of South Florida, Tampa, FL.

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

Chapman, M.M., Bosman, J., 2014. Man Guilty of Murdering Woman at His Front Door. New York Times A12.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Stein, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Cane and Molnar, 2001; Stein, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Cane and Molnar, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Munshi et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Small Ruminant Research
Abbreviation	Small Rumin. Res.
ISSN (print)	0921-4488
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Food Animals