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

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

Sun, T.-P., 2014. Plant Science. Sex and the single fern. Science 346, 423–424.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mojzsis, S.J., Harrison, T.M., 2002. Origin and significance of Archean quartzose rocks at Akilia, Greenland. Science 298, 917; discussion 917.

A journal article with 3 authors

Clem, R.L., Celikel, T., Barth, A.L., 2008. Ongoing in vivo experience triggers synaptic metaplasticity in the neocortex. Science 319, 101–104.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Agger, K., Cloos, P.A.C., Christensen, J., Pasini, D., Rose, S., Rappsilber, J., Issaeva, I., Canaani, E., Salcini, A.E., Helin, K., 2007. UTX and JMJD3 are histone H3K27 demethylases involved in HOX gene regulation and development. Nature 449, 731–734.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang, Y., Wen, F., Xiao, M., 2013. Quantum Control of Multi-Wave Mixing. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Mehandjiev, N., Grefen, P. (Eds.), 2010. Dynamic Business Process Formation for Instant Virtual Enterprises, Advanced Information and Knowledge Processing. Springer, London.

A chapter in an edited book

Clunas, C., 2004. Text, Representation and Technique in Early Modern China, in: Chemla, K. (Ed.), History of Science, History of Text, Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 107–121.

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 Reproduction Science.

Blog post

Hale, T., 2015. Top Scientist Bizarrely Claims Women “Don’t Understand’ Fracking [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/environment/female-scientist-claims-women-don-t-understand-fracking/ (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, 2013. Aviation Safety: Status of Recommendations to Improve FAA’s Certification and Approval Processes (No. GAO-14-142T). 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

Zhuang, S., 2008. Enhancing Implicit Finite Element Sheet Forming Simulation (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

Hodara, S., 2016. Where Paintings Have Overtaken Pixels. New York Times CT9.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Sun, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Mojzsis and Harrison, 2002; Sun, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Mojzsis and Harrison, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Agger et al., 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	Animal Reproduction Science
Abbreviation	Anim. Reprod. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0378-4320
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Endocrinology General Medicine Food Animals