How to format your references using the Animal Biotelemetry citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Animal Biotelemetry. 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

1. Marx V. Cancer: A most exceptional response. Nature. 2015;520:389–93.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Coles P, Chiang LY. Characterizing the nonlinear growth of large-scale structure in the Universe. Nature. 2000;406:376–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ahn CH, Triscone J-M, Mannhart J. Electric field effect in correlated oxide systems. Nature. 2003;424:1015–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Coen A, Cincotta RP, Bloom D, Canning D. Family planning programs and national prosperity. Science. 2000;288:1747d–8d.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Eric G. F, Yvonne R. Growing Pains. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Kerkhoffs GMMJ, Servien E, editors. Acute Muscle Injuries. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bückström T, Birzniece V, Fernández G, Johansson I-M, Kask K, Lindblad C, et al. Neuroactive Steroids: Effects on Cognitive Functions. In: Ritsner MS, Weizman A, editors. Neuroactive Steroids in Brain Function, Behavior and Neuropsychiatric Disorders: Novel Strategies for Research and Treatment. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2008. p. 103–21.

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 Animal Biotelemetry.

Blog post

1. Hale T. First Edition Of Newton’s Principia Mathematica Becomes World’s Most Expensive Science Book [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/first-edition-of-newton-s-principia-mathematica-becomes-world-s-most-expensive-science-book/. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Legislative Developments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986 Jan. Report No.: 132007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Nomberg RI. Understanding interest group strategies: A case study of civic leaders collaborating with local government [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2009.

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

1. Stewart JB. Snap Stretches the Limits of Valuation. New York Times. 2017 Mar 2;B1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Biotelemetry
ISSN (online)	2050-3385
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