How to format your references using the Small Ruminant Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Small Ruminant Research. 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

Savolainen, O., 2011. Evolution. The genomic basis of local climatic adaptation. Science 334, 49–50.

A journal article with 2 authors

Abramson, J., Vartanian, A.S., 2013. Biochemistry. Watch water flow. Science 340, 1294–1295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Prins, M.W., Welters, W.J., Weekamp, J.W., 2001. Fluid control in multichannel structures by electrocapillary pressure. Science 291, 277–280.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brown, M., Assen, F.P., Leithner, A., Abe, J., Schachner, H., Asfour, G., Bago-Horvath, Z., Stein, J.V., Uhrin, P., Sixt, M., Kerjaschki, D., 2018. Lymph node blood vessels provide exit routes for metastatic tumor cell dissemination in mice. Science 359, 1408–1411.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Davis, M., McKimm, J., Forrest, K., 2013. How to Assess Doctors and Health Professionals. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Corona, G., Jannini, E.A., Maggi, M. (Eds.), 2014. Emotional, Physical and Sexual Abuse: Impact in Children and Social Minorities. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Tian, H., Luo, X.-G., Han, Z., Hao, R., Wang, N., Jiang, Y., Zhang, T.-C., 2012. Identification and Characterization of Lactobacillus Planetarium TH1, in: Zhu, E., Sambath, S. (Eds.), Information Technology and Agricultural Engineering, Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 31–37.

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 Small Ruminant Research.

Blog post

Luntz, S., 2014. Quasars Not So Complicated [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2002. Marine Transportation: Federal Financing and an Infrastructure Investment Framework (No. GAO-02-1090T). 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

Zhang, Y., 2017. A Grant Proposal for Mindfulness-Based Self-Care Training for Child Welfare Workers (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Greenhouse, L., 2007. Supreme Court Weighs Maine’s Tobacco Law. New York Times C3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Savolainen, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Abramson and Vartanian, 2013; Savolainen, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Abramson and Vartanian, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Brown et al., 2018)

About the journal

Full journal title	Small Ruminant Research
Abbreviation	Small Rumin. Res.
ISSN (print)	0921-4488
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Food Animals