How to format your references using the Archives of Animal Nutrition citation style

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

Tata J. 2004. The domino effect. Nature. 431(7008):513.

A journal article with 2 authors

Broccoli AJ, Klein SA. 2010. Comment on “Observational and model evidence for positive low-level cloud feedback.” Science. 329(5989):277; author reply 277.

A journal article with 3 authors

McKemy DD, Neuhausser WM, Julius D. 2002. Identification of a cold receptor reveals a general role for TRP channels in thermosensation. Nature. 416(6876):52–58.

A journal article with 12 or more authors

Hu Q-H, Xie Z-Q, Wang X-M, Kang H, He Q-F, Zhang P. 2013. Secondary organic aerosols over oceans via oxidation of isoprene and monoterpenes from Arctic to Antarctic. Sci Rep. 3:2280.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Koperski J. 2014. The Physics of Theism. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Poibeau T, Saggion H, Piskorski J, Yangarber R, editors. 2013. Multi-source, Multilingual Information Extraction and Summarization. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Li W, Wu Y, Goh M. 2015. A Continuous-Time Model for Multiple Yard Crane Scheduling with Last-Minute Job Arrivals. In: Wu Y, Goh M, editors. Planning and Scheduling for Maritime Container Yards: Supporting and Facilitating the Global Supply Network. Cham: Springer International Publishing; p. 53–83.

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 of Animal Nutrition.

Blog post

Luntz S. 2014. Journal Accepts Paper Reading “Get Me Off Your Fucking Mailing List.” IFLScience [Internet]. [accessed 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/journal-accepts-paper-reading-get-me-your-fucking-mailing-list/

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. 2017. High Risk: Actions Needed to Address Serious Weaknesses in Federal Management of Programs Serving Indian Tribes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gikiri MM. 2012. Effects of attitude, norms, and perceived behavior control on intentions to become a teen father [Doctoral dissertation]. Minneapolis, MN: Capella 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

Sisario B. 2017. Bruce Springsteen: Greetings From Broadway. New York Times.:C5.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Tata 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Tata 2004; Broccoli and Klein 2010).

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

Two authors: (Broccoli and Klein 2010)
Three or more authors: (Hu et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Animal Nutrition
Abbreviation	Arch. Anim. Nutr.
ISSN (print)	1745-039X
ISSN (online)	1477-2817
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology General Medicine General Veterinary