How to format your references using the Acta Theriologica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Theriologica. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Lea DW (2002) Paleoclimate. The glacial tropical Pacific--not just a west side story. Science 297:202–203

A journal article with 2 authors

Armatas GS, Kanatzidis MG (2006) Hexagonal mesoporous germanium. Science 313:817–820

A journal article with 3 authors

Durack PJ, Wijffels SE, Matear RJ (2012) Ocean salinities reveal strong global water cycle intensification during 1950 to 2000. Science 336:455–458

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gao R, Cui Y, Liu X, Wang L (2014) Multifunctional interface modification of energy relay dye in quasi-solid dye-sensitized solar cells. Sci Rep 4:5570

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paret D, Huon J-P (2017) Secure Connected Objects. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Schatz BR (2011) Healthcare Infrastructure: Health Systems for Individuals and Populations. Springer, London

A chapter in an edited book

Gjedrem T, Baranski M (2009) Initiating Breeding Programs. In: Baranski M (ed) Selective Breeding in Aquaculture: An Introduction. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 63–85

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 Acta Theriologica.

Blog post

Hale T (2017) Brazilian City Suffers Spate Of Vampire Bat Attacks. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/brazilian-city-suffers-spate-of-vampire-bat-attacks-/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2000) Mass Transit: Implementation of FTA’s New Starts Evaluation Process and FY 2001 Funding Proposals. 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

Cong M (2015) Predictive models of cytotoxicity as mediated by exposure to environmental toxicants and drugs. 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

Rockwell J (2017) He Put Brooklyn on the Map. New York Times AR8

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Lea 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Lea 2002; Armatas and Kanatzidis 2006).

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

Two authors: (Armatas and Kanatzidis 2006)
Three or more authors: (Gao et al. 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Theriologica
ISSN (print)	0001-7051
ISSN (online)	2190-3743
Scope