How to format your references using the Applied Animal Behaviour Science citation style

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

Austin, J., 2005. The class of 2005. United States: two scientists and a baby. Science 310, 518–519.

A journal article with 2 authors

Von Hippel, D., Hayes, P., 2007. International security. Energy security for North Korea. Science 316, 1288–1289.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jeng, M.-S., Ng, N.K., Ng, P.K.L., 2004. Feeding behaviour: hydrothermal vent crabs feast on sea “snow.” Nature 432, 969.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

O’Neal, C.J., Jobling, M.G., Holmes, R.K., Hol, W.G.J., 2005. Structural basis for the activation of cholera toxin by human ARF6-GTP. Science 309, 1093–1096.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hwang, R.-B.R., 2012. Periodic Structures. John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte Ltd, Singapore.

An edited book

Fox, P.F., McSweeney, P.L.H. (Eds.), 2006. Advanced Dairy Chemistry Volume 2 Lipids, Third Edition. ed. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Molnár, Z., López-Bendito, G., Blakey, D., Thompson, A., Higashi, S., 2006. The Earliest Thalamocortical Interactions, in: Erzurumlu, R., Guido, W., Molnár, Z. (Eds.), Development and Plasticity in Sensory Thalamus and Cortex. Springer US, Boston, MA, pp. 54–78.

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 Applied Animal Behaviour Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Scientists Discover Music Evolves Like A Living Species [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/technology/music-evolves-living-species-new-study-shows/ (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, 2001. Information Technology: DLA Should Strengthen Business Systems Modernization Architecture and Investment Activities (No. GAO-01-631). 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

Brown, O., 2008. Business and IT leaders’ behavioral affects on alignment and project outcome: A comparative leadership study (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Murphy, M.J.O., 2015. Opening Night for ‘Arsenic and Old Lace.’ New York Times C28.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Austin, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Austin, 2005; Von Hippel and Hayes, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Von Hippel and Hayes, 2007)
Three or more authors: (O’Neal et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Applied Animal Behaviour Science
Abbreviation	Appl. Anim. Behav. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0168-1591
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Food Animals