How to format your references using the Animal Nutrition citation style

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

Norton DA. Species invasions and the limits to restoration: learning from the New Zealand experience. Science 2009;325:569–71.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bradford L, O’Tierney P. Three-person rule was not set by Nobel himself. Nature 2001;411:413.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lykotrafitis G, Rosakis AJ, Ravichandran G. Self-healing pulse-like shear ruptures in the laboratory. Science 2006;313:1765–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Torchinsky MB, Garaude J, Martin AP, Blander JM. Innate immune recognition of infected apoptotic cells directs T(H)17 cell differentiation. Nature 2009;458:78–82.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hallberg MC. Economic Trends in U.S. Agriculture and Food Systems Since World War II. Ames, Iowa, USA: Iowa State University Press; 2008.

An edited book

Shaw R, Izumi T, editors. Civil Society Organization and Disaster Risk Reduction: The Asian Dilemma. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Biollay Y, Chaabouni A, Stubbe J. Funzioni. In: Chaabouni A, Stubbe J, Quarteroni A, editors. Matematica si parte!: Nozioni di base ed esercizi per il primo anno di Ingegneria, Milano: Springer; 2007, p. 67–77.

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 Nutrition.

Blog post

Andrew D. Drone Captures Breathtaking Footage Inside The Worlds Largest Cave. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/drone-captures-breathtaking-footage-inside-worlds-largest-cave/ (accessed October 30, 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. Systemwide Education Reform: Federal Leadership Could Facilitate District-Level Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sanabria A. Root Metaphor. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University, 2012.

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

Sophia Kishkovsky; Compiled by. Arts, Briefly; Bolshoi Opens Controversial Opera. New York Times 2005:E2.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Norton, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Bradford and O’Tierney, 2001; Norton, 2009).

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

Two authors: (Bradford and O’Tierney, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Torchinsky et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Nutrition
Abbreviation	Anim. Nutr.
ISSN (print)	2405-6545
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