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

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

Godfray, H.C.J., Jr. 2007. Linnaeus in the information age. Nature 446:259–260.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wickens, M., and T.N. Gonzalez. 2004. Molecular biology. Knives, accomplices, and RNA. Science 306:1299–1300.

A journal article with 3 authors

Queitsch, C., T.A. Sangster, and S. Lindquist. 2002. Hsp90 as a capacitor of phenotypic variation. Nature 417:618–624.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Ichiki, K., K. Takahashi, H. Ohno, H. Hanayama, and N. Sugiyama. 2006. Cosmological magnetic field: a fossil of density perturbations in the early universe. Science 311:827–829.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cheremisinoff, N.P. 2014. Dust Explosion and Fire Prevention Handbook. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Goldreich, O. ed. . 2010. Property Testing: Current Research and Surveys. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Wörner, G., R.S. Harmon, G. Hartmann, and K. Simon. 2005. Igneous Geology and Geochemistry of the Upper Río Chagres Basin. Pages 65–81 in The Río Chagres, Panama: A Multidisciplinary Profile of a Tropical Watershed. R.S. Harmon, ed. Springer Netherlands.

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 Science.

Blog post

Andrew, E. 2015. Beautiful Photo Of Saturn’s Moon Tethys Reveals Strange Impact Crater. Accessed October 30, 2018. https://www.iflscience.com/space/beautiful-photo-saturns-moon-tethys/.

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. 1987. Attack Warning: ADP and Communication Modernization Programs for Warning and Assessment. 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

Pantallion, A.S. 2015. A parallel comparison of views regarding student preparation for introductory college chemistry. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Chira, S. 2017. Powerful Woman? Yes. ‘Feminist’? No. New York Times SR6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Godfray, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Wickens and Gonzalez, 2004; Godfray, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Wickens and Gonzalez, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Ichiki et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Dairy Science
Abbreviation	J. Dairy Sci.
ISSN (print)	0022-0302
ISSN (online)	1525-3198
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Food Science Genetics