How to format your references using the Tropical Animal Health and Production citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tropical Animal Health and Production. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Wickware, P., 2000. Next-generation biologists must straddle computation and biology Nature, 404, 683–684

A journal article with 2 authors

Osborne, I. and Coontz, R., 2008. Quantum wonderland. Introduction to special issue Science (New York, N.Y.), 319, 1201

A journal article with 3 authors

Kaminski, J.A., Sloutsky, V.M. and Heckler, A.F., 2008. Learning theory. The advantage of abstract examples in learning math Science (New York, N.Y.), 320, 454–455

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Autran, B., Carcelain, G., Combadiere, B. and Debre, P., 2004. Therapeutic vaccines for chronic infections Science (New York, N.Y.), 305, 205–208

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heywood, J., 2005. Engineering Education, (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Klein, S., 2012. Pro SQL Database for Windows Azure: SQL Server in the Cloud, Second Edition H. Roggero (ed), (Apress: Berkeley, CA)

A chapter in an edited book

Winter, S.S. and Taube, J.S., 2014. Head Direction Cells: From Generation to Integration In:, D. Derdikman and J. J. Knierim (eds), Space,Time and Memory in the Hippocampal Formation, (Springer: Vienna), 83–106

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 Tropical Animal Health and Production.

Blog post

Fang, J., 2014. Earth Was Bombarded By Huge Meteorites Constantly Until 3 Billion Years Ago (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, 1994. National Highway System: Refinements Would Strengthen the System, (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

Ramotar-John, B.P., 2014. Supplementing soybean meal with Camelina (Camelina sativa) in tilapia diets and optimizing commercial tilapia diets for use in intensive systems in the Western region of the United States (University of Arizona: Tucson, AZ)

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

Hartocollis, A., 2014. And Surrogacy Makes 3

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Wickware, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Wickware, 2000; Osborne and Coontz, 2008).

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

Two authors: (Osborne and Coontz, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Autran et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Tropical Animal Health and Production
Abbreviation	Trop. Anim. Health Prod.
ISSN (print)	0049-4747
ISSN (online)	1573-7438
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Food Animals