How to format your references using the Animal Feed Science and Technology citation style

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

McGill, B.J., 2006. Ecology. A renaissance in the study of abundance. Science 314, 770–772.

A journal article with 2 authors

Guarente, L., Kenyon, C., 2000. Genetic pathways that regulate ageing in model organisms. Nature 408, 255–262.

A journal article with 3 authors

Giovannetti, V., Lloyd, S., Maccone, L., 2001. Quantum-enhanced positioning and clock synchronization. Nature 412, 417–419.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pahnke, K., Zahn, R., Elderfield, H., Schulz, M., 2003. 340,000-year centennial-scale marine record of Southern Hemisphere climatic oscillation. Science 301, 948–952.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moll, W., Moll, A., 2011. Schallschutz im Wohnungsbau. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Cheon, J.H., Takagi, T. (Eds.), 2016. Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2016: 22nd International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Hanoi, Vietnam, December 4-8, 2016, Proceedings, Part II, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Bona, C., Bona-Casas, C., Palenzuela-Luque, C., 2009. Numerical Methods, in: Palenzuela-Luque, C., Bona-Casas, C. (Eds.), Elements of Numerical Relativity and Relativistic Hydrodynamics: From Einstein’ s Equations to Astrophysical Simulations, Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 109–142.

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 Feed Science and Technology.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Dinosaurs May Have Been Cooing To Each Other [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/dinosaurs-may-have-been-cooing-to-each-other/ (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, 2003. Aviation Security: Efforts to Measure Effectiveness and Address Challenges (No. GAO-04-232T). 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

Thomas Hurford, C.E., 2010. “In his arm the scar”: Medicine, race, and the social implications of the 1721 inoculation controversy on Boston (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Yablonsky, L., 2013. Beautiful Ruins. New York Times M288.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McGill, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Guarente and Kenyon, 2000; McGill, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Guarente and Kenyon, 2000)
Three or more authors: (Pahnke et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Feed Science and Technology
Abbreviation	Anim. Feed Sci. Technol.
ISSN (print)	0377-8401
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology