How to format your references using the Animal Cells and Systems citation style

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

Booth BB. 2015. Climate change. Why the Pacific is cool. Science. 347(6225):952.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gomes CP, Selman B. 2002. Computer science. Satisfied with physics. Science. 297(5582):784–785.

A journal article with 3 authors

Duncan K, Sadanand A, Davachi L. 2012. Memory’s penumbra: episodic memory decisions induce lingering mnemonic biases. Science. 337(6093):485–487.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Antia R, Regoes RR, Koella JC, Bergstrom CT. 2003. The role of evolution in the emergence of infectious diseases. Nature. 426(6967):658–661.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

May V, Kühn O. 2007. Charge and Energy Transfer Dynamics in Molecular Systems. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH.

An edited book

Dorigo M, Birattari M, Caro GAD, Doursat R, Engelbrecht AP, Floreano D, Gambardella LM, Groß R, Şahin E, Sayama H, Stützle T, editors. 2010. Swarm Intelligence: 7th International Conference, ANTS 2010, Brussels, Belgium, September 8-10, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Alkobaisi S, Vojtěchovský P, Bae WD, Kim SH, Leutenegger ST. 2008. The Truncated Tornado in TMBB: A Spatiotemporal Uncertainty Model for Moving Objects. In: Bhowmick SS, Küng J, Wagner R, editors. Database and Expert Systems Applications: 19th International Conference, DEXA 2008, Turin, Italy, September 1-5, 2008 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 33–40.

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 Cells and Systems.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Banned Diet Pill Reverses Type 2 Diabetes And Fatty Liver In Rats. IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/reinvented-banned-diet-pill-reverses-type-2-diabetes-and-fatty-liver-rats/

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. Aviation Safety: Safer Skies Initiative Has Taken Initial Steps to Reduce Accident Rates by 2007. Washington, DC: 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

Tripamer AJ. 2013. Teacher Perceptions of Teacher Evaluations in the Fort Zumwalt School District [Doctoral dissertation]. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University.

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

Otis J. 2016. A Caretaker and Protector Dreams of the ‘Fullest’ Life Possible for Her Sister. New York Times.:A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Booth 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Gomes and Selman 2002; Booth 2015).

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

Two authors: (Gomes and Selman 2002)
Three or more authors: (Antia et al. 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Cells and Systems
Abbreviation	Animal Cells Syst. (Seoul)
ISSN (print)	1976-8354
ISSN (online)	2151-2485
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology