How to format your references using the Annual Review of Animal Biosciences citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Animal Biosciences. 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

Miyashita Y. 2004. Cognitive memory: cellular and network machineries and their top-down control. Science. 306(5695):435–40

A journal article with 2 authors

Tanno K-I, Willcox G. 2006. How fast was wild wheat domesticated? Science. 311(5769):1886

A journal article with 3 authors

Caricchi L, Simpson G, Schaltegger U. 2014. Zircons reveal magma fluxes in the Earth’s crust. Nature. 511(7510):457–61

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Khaitovich P, Hellmann I, Enard W, Nowick K, Leinweber M, et al. 2005. Parallel patterns of evolution in the genomes and transcriptomes of humans and chimpanzees. Science. 309(5742):1850–54

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Doldi L. 2005. Validation of Communications Systems with SDL. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Barneva RP, Brimkov VE, Aggarwal JK, eds. 2012. Combinatorial Image Analaysis: 15th International Workshop, IWCIA 2012, Austin, TX, USA, November 28-30, 2012. Proceedings, Vol. 7655. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XIV, 313 p. 176 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Morrison T. 2010. Juan Bautista Villalpando and the Nature and Science of Architectural Drawing. In Architecture, Mathematics and Perspective, ed T García-Salgado, pp. 63–73. Basel: Birkhäuser

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 Annual Review of Animal Biosciences.

Blog post

Davis J. 2015. US Military’s “Self-steering” Bullets Can Hit A Moving Target. IFLScience. www.iflscience.com

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. 1999. Emergency and State and Local Law Enforcement Systems: Committee Questions Concerning Year 2000 Challenges. AIMD-99-247R, 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

Bowmar JS. 2012. Building Energy Efficiency and Resilience in the United States, One Disaster at a Time: Fostering Green Building Principles through Disaster Assistance. Doctoral dissertation thesis. George Washington 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

Feeney K. 2008. Cuban Comfort. New York Times, Nov. 9, p. NJ14

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (1).
This sentence cites two references (1, 2).
This sentence cites four references (1–4).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Animal Biosciences
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Anim. Biosci.
ISSN (print)	2165-8102
ISSN (online)	2165-8110
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Biotechnology Genetics General Veterinary