How to format your references using the Journal of Dairy Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Dairy Research (JDR). 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

Victor D (2009) Plan B for Copenhagen. Nature 461, 342–344.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rammig A and Mahecha MD (2015) Ecology: Ecosystem responses to climate extremes. Nature 527, 315–316.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baier DB, Gatesy SM and Jenkins FA (2007) A critical ligamentous mechanism in the evolution of avian flight. Nature 445, 307–310.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Nakanishi Y, Lu B, Gerard C and Iwasaki A (2009) CD8(+) T lymphocyte mobilization to virus-infected tissue requires CD4(+) T-cell help. Nature 462, 510–513.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Paterson JC (2015) Lean Auditing. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Torra V and Narukawa Y (2008) Modeling Decisions for Artificial Intelligence: 5th International Conference, MDAI 2008 Sabadell, Spain, October 30-31, 2008. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Affronti A, Orlando A and Cottone M (2016) Course of Crohn’s Disease. In Lo Re G and Midiri M (eds), Crohn’s Disease: Radiological Features and Clinical-Surgical Correlations. Cham: Springer International Publishing, pp 31–42.

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 Journal of Dairy Research.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Kids Who Suck Their Thumbs And Bite Their Nails May Have Fewer Allergies. IFLScience. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/kids-who-suck-their-thumbs-bite-their-nails-may-have-fewer-allergies/ [30/10/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office (2009) Emergency Communications: Vulnerabilities Remain and Limited Collaboration and Monitoring Hamper Federal Efforts. 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

Collins K (2014) Learning to live in the layers: Traveling soul’s way through poetry. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Greenhouse L (2008) Administration Rebuffed On House Office Search. New York Times A17.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Victor, 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Victor, 2009; Rammig and Mahecha, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Rammig and Mahecha, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Nakanishi et al., 2009)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Dairy Research
ISSN (print)	0022-0299
ISSN (online)	1469-7629
Scope