How to format your references using the Animal Production Science citation style

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

Fuyuno I (2006) Hwang scandal hits Korean biotech hard. Nature 439(7074), 265.

A journal article with 2 authors

McIntosh AR, Lobaugh NJ (2003) Neuroscience. When is a word not a word? Science (New York, N.Y.) 301(5631), 322–323.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sazonov SY, Lutovinov AA, Sunyaev RA (2004) An apparently normal gamma-ray burst with an unusually low luminosity. Nature 430(7000), 646–648.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Garkavtsev I, Kozin SV, Chernova O, Xu L, Winkler F, Brown E, Barnett GH, Jain RK (2004) The candidate tumour suppressor protein ING4 regulates brain tumour growth and angiogenesis. Nature 428(6980), 328–332.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Burghardt G, Walls B (2011) ‘Managed Futures for Institutional Investors’ (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ).

An edited book

Zhou Z-R (2013) ‘Dental Biotribology’ (Eds. H-Y Yu, J Zheng, L-M Qian, and Y Yan) (Springer: New York, NY).

A chapter in an edited book

Gal J (2010) Exploring the Extended Family of Mediterranean Welfare States, or: Did Beveridge and Bismarck Take a Mediterranean Cruise Together? In ‘Children, Gender and Families in Mediterranean Welfare States.’ Children¿s Well-Being: Indicators and Research. (Eds M Ajzenstadt, J Gal) pp. 77–101. (Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht)

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 Production Science.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) California Just Banned SeaWorld From Breeding Orcas In Captivity. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/california-just-banned-seaworld-breeding-orcas-captivity/ [accessed 30 October 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 (1998) Education and Employment Issue Area Plan: Fiscal Years 1998-2000. IAP-98-10. 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

Iniguez D (2013) Mentoring through performing arts; A grant proposal for at risk youth in middle school. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Poniewozik J (2016) In the Better of Two Hereafters, but Still Crabby About It. New York Times C6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fuyuno 2006).
This sentence cites two references (McIntosh and Lobaugh 2003; Fuyuno 2006).

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

Two authors: (McIntosh and Lobaugh 2003)
Three or more authors: (Garkavtsev et al. 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Production Science
Abbreviation	Anim. Prod. Sci.
ISSN (print)	1836-0939
ISSN (online)	1836-5787
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Food Science