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

Patel, A.D., 2008. Science & music: talk of the tone. Nature 453, 726–727.

A journal article with 2 authors

Soldner, F., Jaenisch, R., 2012. Medicine. iPSC disease modeling. Science 338, 1155–1156.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wang, D., Song, C., Barabási, A.-L., 2013. Quantifying long-term scientific impact. Science 342, 127–132.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

García, R.A., Turck-Chièze, S., Jiménez-Reyes, S.J., Ballot, J., Pallé, P.L., Eff-Darwich, A., Mathur, S., Provost, J., 2007. Tracking solar gravity modes: the dynamics of the solar core. Science 316, 1591–1593.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ghaye, T., 2008. Building the Reflective Healthcare Organisation. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Queffélec, H., 2013. Diophantine Approximation and Dirichlet Series. Hindustan Book Agency, Gurgaon.

A chapter in an edited book

Amro, S.A., Chiclana, F., Elizondo, D.A., 2012. Application of Fuzzy Logic in Computer Security and Forensics, in: Elizondo, David A., Solanas, A., Martinez-Balleste, A. (Eds.), Computational Intelligence for Privacy and Security, Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 35–49.

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. Revealed: Why Some Corals Are More Colourful Than Others [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 2005. Survey of Large- and Medium-Hub Airports on Existing and Planned Bus and Rail Connections, an E-supplement to GAO-05-727 (No. GAO-05-738SP). 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

Eakman, T.L., 2017. Education Level and Critical Thinking Skills Among Substance Use Counselors Nationwide: A Descriptive Comparative Study (Doctoral dissertation). Capella University, Minneapolis, MN.

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

Pilon, M., 2012. Games Are Over; Battle Goes On. New York Times SP4.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Patel, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Patel, 2008; Soldner and Jaenisch, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Soldner and Jaenisch, 2012)
Three or more authors: (García et al., 2007)

About the journal

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