How to format your references using the Journal of Mammalogy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Mammalogy. 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

Montgomery SL. 2001. Gained in the translation. Nature 409(6821):667.

A journal article with 2 authors

Losos JB, Pringle RM. 2011. Competition, predation and natural selection in island lizards. Nature 475(7355):E1-2; discussion E3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ben-Shem A, Frolow F, Nelson N. 2003. Crystal structure of plant photosystem I. Nature 426(6967):630–635.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

O’Donovan P, Perrett CM, Zhang X, Montaner B, Xu Y-Z, Harwood CA, McGregor JM, Walker SL, Hanaoka F, Karran P. 2005. Azathioprine and UVA light generate mutagenic oxidative DNA damage. Science (New York, N.Y.) 309(5742):1871–1874.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Greiman VA. 2013. Megaproject Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Faro SH, Mohamed FB editors. 2010. BOLD fMRI: A Guide to Functional Imaging for Neuroscientists. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Ma T-M, Lyuu Y-D, Ti Y-W. 2006. An Efficient Algorithm for Finding Long Conserved Regions Between Genes. In: R. Berthold M, Glen RC, Fischer I, editors. Computational Life Sciences II: Second International Symposium, CompLife 2006, Cambridge, UK, September 27-29, 2006. Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; p. 42–51.

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 Mammalogy.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2017. New Holes Found In Curiosity Rover’s Wheels On Mars. IFLScience. IFLScience. [accessed 30 Oct 2018] https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-holes-found-in-curiosity-rovers-wheels-on-mars/

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. 1980. Basic Agreements With Educational Institutions or Nonprofit Organizations for Award of Research and Development Contracts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office. B-200941.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Gillespie L. 2014. Trust in Leadership: Investigation of Andragogical Learning and Implications for Student Placement Outcomes [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood 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

Cline EH. 2014. Climate Change Doomed the Ancients. New York Times. . May 28, 2014:A21.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Montgomery 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Montgomery 2001; Losos and Pringle 2011).

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

Two authors: (Losos and Pringle 2011)
Three or more authors: (O’Donovan et al. 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Mammalogy
Abbreviation	J. Mammal.
ISSN (print)	0022-2372
ISSN (online)	1545-1542
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics Genetics Ecology Nature and Landscape Conservation