How to format your references using the Domestic Animal Endocrinology citation style

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

[1]

Kessin RH. Microbiology. Sex and sacrifice. Science 2010;330:1487–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Gaillardet J, Galy A. Atmospheric science. Himalaya--carbon sink or source? Science 2008;320:1727–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Logvenov G, Gozar A, Bozovic I. High-temperature superconductivity in a single copper-oxygen plane. Science 2009;326:699–702.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Konhauser KO, Pecoits E, Lalonde SV, Papineau D, Nisbet EG, Barley ME, et al. Oceanic nickel depletion and a methanogen famine before the Great Oxidation Event. Nature 2009;458:750–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Delgrossi L, Zhang T. Vehicle Safety Communications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Akram RN, Jajodia S, editors. Information Security Theory and Practice: 9th IFIP WG 11.2 International Conference, WISTP 2015, Heraklion, Crete, Greece, August 24-25, 2015. Proceedings. vol. 9311. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Misra P, Viswakarma N, Reddy JK. Peroxisome Proliferator-Activated Receptor-α Signaling in Hepatocarcinogenesis. In: del Río LA, editor. Peroxisomes and their Key Role in Cellular Signaling and Metabolism, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013, p. 77–99.

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 Domestic Animal Endocrinology.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. These Five Optical Illusions Will Make You Doubt Your Own Eyes. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/here-are-five-optical-illusions-to-make-you-doubt-your-eyes/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Telecommunications: Costs Reported by Federal Organizations for Fiscal Year 1995. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Lucas WA. Dynamics of Food Consumption in a Q’eqchi’ Maya Community. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Williams J. A Laugh Factory Looks Back. New York Times 2016:BR4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Domestic Animal Endocrinology
Abbreviation	Domest. Anim. Endocrinol.
ISSN (print)	0739-7240
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Endocrinology Food Animals