How to format your references using the Mammal Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mammal Review. 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

Walmsley IA (2008) Looking to the future of quantum optics. Science (New York, N.Y.) 319: 1211–1213.

A journal article with 2 authors

Pera MF, Tam PPL (2010) Extrinsic regulation of pluripotent stem cells. Nature 465: 713–720.

A journal article with 3 authors

Liljeroth P, Repp J, Meyer G (2007) Current-induced hydrogen tautomerization and conductance switching of naphthalocyanine molecules. Science (New York, N.Y.) 317: 1203–1206.

A journal article with 10 or more authors

Ullah H, Chen JG, Young JC, Im KH, Sussman MR, Jones AM (2001) Modulation of cell proliferation by heterotrimeric G protein in Arabidopsis. Science (New York, N.Y.) 292: 2066–2069.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Mang T, Bobzin K, Bartels T (2010) Industrial Tribology. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Yang D (2013) The Hardy Space H1 with Non-doubling Measures and Their Applications. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Burggraf K, De Loera J, Omar M (2013) On Volumes of Permutation Polytopes. In: Bezdek K, Deza A, Ye Y (eds) Discrete Geometry and Optimization, Fields Institute Communications, 55–77. Springer International Publishing, Heidelberg.

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 Mammal Review.

Blog post

Andrew E (2013) Three New Species of Antechinus Discovered in Australia. IFLScience.

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 (2015) Aviation Finance: Observations on the Effects of Budget Uncertainty on FAA. 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

Croghan A (2014) The Effects of Depressive Symptomatology, Intrusive Thinking, and Age on Cognitive Functioning.

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

Fiske IH (1907) ALGERNON CHARLES SWINBURNE. New York Times: SATURDAY REVIEW OF BOOKSBR233.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Walmsley 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Walmsley 2008, Pera & Tam 2010).

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

Two authors: (Pera & Tam 2010)
Three or more authors: (Ullah et al. 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mammal Review
Abbreviation	Mamm. Rev.
ISSN (print)	0305-1838
ISSN (online)	1365-2907
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology