How to format your references using the Archives Animal Breeding citation style

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

Dickey, B. F.: Biochemistry. Walking on solid ground, Science, 337, 924–925, 2012.

A journal article with 2 authors

Barkman, T. and Zhang, J.: Evidence for escape from adaptive conflict?, Nature, 462, E1; discussion E2-3, 2009.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sun, L., Xie, Z., and Zhao, J.: A 3,000-year record of penguin populations, Nature, 407, 858, 2000.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Kiers, E. T., Leakey, R. R. B., Izac, A.-M., Heinemann, J. A., Rosenthal, E., Nathan, D., and Jiggins, J.: Ecology. Agriculture at a crossroads, Science, 320, 320–321, 2008.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Doerfler, W.: Foreign DNA in Mammalian Systems, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, Weinheim, Germany, 2007.

An edited book

Koubaa, A. (Ed.): Robot Operating System (ROS): The Complete Reference (Volume 1), 1st ed. 2016., Springer International Publishing, Cham, XIII, 728 p. 352 illus., 266 illus. in color p., 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Dias, J. M. and do Céu Marques, M.: A Multiobjective Approach for a Dynamic Simple Plant Location Problem under Uncertainty, in: Computational Science and Its Applications – ICCSA 2014: 14th International Conference, Guimarães, Portugal, June 30 – July 3, 2014, Proceedings, Part II, edited by: Murgante, B., Misra, S., Rocha, A. M. A. C., Torre, C., Rocha, J. G., Falcão, M. I., Taniar, D., Apduhan, B. O., and Gervasi, O., Springer International Publishing, Cham, 60–75, 2014.

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 Archives Animal Breeding.

Blog post

Hamilton, K.: Health Check: Which Fruits Are Healthier, And In What Form?, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/health-check-which-fruits-are-healthier-and-in-what-form/, last access: 30 October 2018, 2016., 2016.

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: SBA Loan Monitoring System: Substantial Progress Yet Key Risks and Challenges Remain, AIMD-00-124, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Salam, S.: Interplay between Fines Content and Strength Characteristics of CA 6 and CA 2 Crushed Limestone Aggregate, Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL, 2017.

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

Crow, K.: Using Tall Yellow Globes To Find Elusive Yellow Cabs, , New York Times12th November148, 2000.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Dickey, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Barkman and Zhang, 2009; Dickey, 2012).

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

Two authors: (Barkman and Zhang, 2009)
Three or more authors: (Kiers et al., 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives Animal Breeding
ISSN (print)	0003-9438
ISSN (online)	2363-9822
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