How to format your references using the Poultry Science citation style

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

Flannery, T. 2001. Geology. North American devastation or global cataclysm? Science 294:1668–1669.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wenseleers, T., and F. L. W. Ratnieks. 2006. Enforced altruism in insect societies. Nature 444:50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Motose, H., M. Sugiyama, and H. Fukuda. 2004. A proteoglycan mediates inductive interaction during plant vascular development. Nature 429:873–878.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wallrapp, A., S. J. Riesenfeld, P. R. Burkett, R.-E. E. Abdulnour, J. Nyman, D. Dionne, M. Hofree, M. S. Cuoco, C. Rodman, D. Farouq, B. J. Haas, T. L. Tickle, J. J. Trombetta, P. Baral, C. S. N. Klose, T. Mahlakõiv, D. Artis, O. Rozenblatt-Rosen, I. M. Chiu, B. D. Levy, M. S. Kowalczyk, A. Regev, and V. K. Kuchroo. 2017. Erratum: The neuropeptide NMU amplifies ILC2-driven allergic lung inflammation. Nature 551:658.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dimon, R. 2013. Enterprise Performance Management Done Right. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Martinoli, A., F. Mondada, N. Correll, G. Mermoud, M. Egerstedt, M. A. Hsieh, L. E. Parker, and K. Støy (Eds). 2013. Distributed Autonomous Robotic Systems: The 10th International Symposium. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

AbuZeina, D., and M. Elshafei. 2012. Cross-Word Pronunciation Variations.Pages 35–46 in Cross-Word Modeling for Arabic Speech Recognition. Elshafei, M., ed. SpringerBriefs in Electrical and Computer Engineering. Springer US, Boston, MA.

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 Poultry Science.

Blog post

Andrews, R. 2015. New Evidence Suggests Life On Earth Began Much Earlier Than We Thought. IFLScience Available at https://www.iflscience.com/environment/life-earth-started-remarkably-close-planets-fiery-formation/ (verified 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. 2014. Information Management: The National Technical Information Service’s Dissemination of Technical Reports Needs Attention. 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

Haradon, C. M. 2010. The ecological context of the Acheulean to Middle Stone Age transition in Africa.

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

Shpigel, B. 2017. Leader of Chiefs’ Special Teams Gives the Humble Punt Its Due. New York Times:SP1.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Flannery, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Flannery, 2001; Wenseleers and Ratnieks, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Wenseleers and Ratnieks, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Wallrapp et al., 2017)

About the journal

Full journal title	Poultry Science
Abbreviation	Poult. Sci.
ISSN (print)	0032-5791
ISSN (online)	1525-3171
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology General Medicine