How to format your references using the Mammalogy Notes citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mammalogy Notes. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Knight J. 2003. Meeting aims to find brain’s benchmarks for beauty. Nature. 421(6921):305.

A journal article with 2 authors

Federman SR, Young ED. 2009. Comment on “Experimental test of self-shielding in vacuum ultraviolet photodissociation of CO.” Science (New York, NY). 324(5934):1516; author reply 1516.

A journal article with 3 authors

Cram DS, Song B, Trounson AO. 2007. Genotyping of Rhesus SCNT pluripotent stem cell lines. Nature. 450(7169):E12-4.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Dong M, Kathiresan V, Fenwick MK, Torelli AT, Zhang Y, Caranto JD, Dzikovski B, Sharma A, Lancaster KM, Freed JH, et al. 2018. Organometallic and radical intermediates reveal mechanism of diphthamide biosynthesis. Science (New York, NY). 359(6381):1247–1250.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kissell J. 2009. Mac® Security Bible. Indianapolis, IN, USA: Wiley Publishing, Inc.

An edited book

Zereini F, Hötzl H, editors. 2008. Climatic Changes and Water Resources in the Middle East and North Africa. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer (Environmental Science and Engineering, Environmental Science).

A chapter in an edited book

Beaudry MH. 2015. Corporate Security: A Supply Chain Program. In: Thomas AR, Vaduva S, editors. Global Supply Chain Security: Emerging Topics in Research, Practice and Policy. New York, NY: Springer. p. 55–67.

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 Mammalogy Notes.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2013 Nov 7. Scientists Turn to YouTube to Understand Chelyabinsk Asteroid Impact. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/scientists-turn-youtube-understand-chelyabinsk-asteroid-impact/. Accessed on 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. 1986. ADP Systems: Concerns About the Acquisition Plan for DOD’s Composite Health Care System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office Report No.: IMTEC-86-12.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Uzoff PP. 2014. Virtual school teacher’s science efficacy beliefs: The effects of community of practice on science-teaching efficacy beliefs [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine 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

Berkman S. 2017 Aug 21. Mets’ Matz Needs Elbow Surgery in Another Blow to the Rotation. New York Times.:B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Knight 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Knight 2003; Federman and Young 2009).

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

Two authors: (Federman and Young 2009)
Three or more authors: (Dong et al. 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Mammalogy Notes
ISSN (online)	2382-3704
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