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

Howie, A., 2012. Akira Tonomura (1942-2012) Nature, 486, 324

A journal article with 2 authors

Pandolfi, J.M. and Lovelock, C.E., 2014. Ecology. Novelty trumps loss in global biodiversity Science (New York, N.Y.), 344, 266–267

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitmire, E., Khan, B. and Coué, M., 2002. Cdc6 synthesis regulates replication competence in Xenopus oocytes Nature, 419, 722–725

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Boesenberg, U., Marcus, M.A., Shukla, A.K., Yi, T., McDermott, E., Teh, P.F., Srinivasan, M., Moewes, A. and Cabana, J., 2014. Asymmetric pathways in the electrochemical conversion reaction of NiO as battery electrode with high storage capacity Scientific reports, 4, 7133

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schwartz, R., 2012. Rethinking Pragmatism, (Wiley-Blackwell: Oxford, UK)

An edited book

Lara, M.D., 2008. Sustainable Management of Natural Resources: Mathematical Models and Methods, L. Doyen (ed), (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg)

A chapter in an edited book

Crozier, A.J., 2009. The Trade and Aid Policy of the European Union: A Historical Perspective In:, P. J. J. Welfens , C. Ryan , S. Chirathivat , and F. Knipping (eds), EU - Asean: Facing Economic Globalisation, (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg), 57–71

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

Hamilton, K., 2014. This Is What Happens If You Wear Magnetic Items In An MRI Machine (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, 1976. Selected Literature on Cost Accounting and Cost Control for Automatic Data Processing, (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

Curiel, A.R., 2013. A re-examination of the Meyers and Volbrecht motor equation for the identification of suspect effort (Pepperdine University: Malibu, 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

Vecsey, G., 2010. A Run to Twilight at the Millrose Games

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Howie, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Howie, 2012; Pandolfi and Lovelock, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Pandolfi and Lovelock, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Boesenberg et al., 2014)

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