How to format your references using the Journal of Small Animal Practice citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Small Animal Practice (JSAP). 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

Forde, A. (2005) The class of 2005: Germany. Tracking pollutants. Science (New York, N.Y.) 310, 521

A journal article with 2 authors

Medzhitov, R. & Littman, D. (2008) HIV immunology needs a new direction. Nature 455, 591

A journal article with 3 authors

Jamtveit, B., Austrheim, H. & Malthe-Sørenssen, A. (2000) Accelerated hydration of the Earth’s deep crust induced by stress perturbations. Nature 408, 75–78

A journal article with 3 or more authors

Won, S., Saun, S.-B., Lee, Soonchil, et al. (2013) NMR spectroscopy for thin films by magnetic resonance force microscopy. Scientific reports 3, 3189

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heuer, A. (2012) Der perfekte Tipp. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Kilian, J. (Ed.) (2005) Theory of Cryptography: Second Theory of Cryptography Conference, TCC 2005, Cambridge, MA, USA, February 10-12, 2005. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

King, A. (2008) Structuring Peer Interaction to Promote Higher-Order Thinking and Complex Learning in Cooperating Groups. In: The Teacher’s Role in Implementing Cooperative Learning in the Classroom. Eds R.M. Gillies, A.F. Ashman, et al. Springer US. pp 73–91

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 Small Animal Practice.

Blog post

Andrew, E. (2015) We Should Not Dismiss The Dangers Of ‘Killer Robots’ So Quickly IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/technology/we-should-not-dismiss-dangers-killer-robots-so-quickly/ [accessed 30 October 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 (1999) Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Medicare and the Delivery of Health Services Are at Risk (No. T-AIMD-99-89). 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

Berkowitz, A.E. (2015) Finding a Place for “Cacega Ayuwipi” within the Structure of American Indian Music and Dance Traditions (Doctoral dissertation). Florida Atlantic 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

Powell, M. (2017) Principles and Posturing. New York Times B9

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Forde 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Forde 2005; Medzhitov & Littman 2008).

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

Two authors: (Medzhitov & Littman 2008)
Three or more authors: (Won et al. 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Small Animal Practice
ISSN (print)	0022-4510
ISSN (online)	1748-5827
Scope