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

Schiebinger, L., 2014. Scientific research must take gender into account Nature, 507, 9

A journal article with 2 authors

Guillette, L.J., Jr and Iguchi, T., 2012. Ecology. Life in a contaminated world Science (New York, N.Y.), 337, 1614–1615

A journal article with 3 authors

Reese, C., Heise, F. and Mayer, A., 2005. Trans-SNARE pairing can precede a hemifusion intermediate in intracellular membrane fusion Nature, 436, 410–414

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lashuel, H.A., Hartley, D., Petre, B.M., Walz, T. and Lansbury, P.T., Jr, 2002. Neurodegenerative disease: amyloid pores from pathogenic mutations Nature, 418, 291

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

King, M., 2011. Process Control, (John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK)

An edited book

Rumley, D., Forbes, V.L. and Griffin, C. (eds), 2006. Australia’s Arc of Instability: The Political and Cultural Dynamics of Regional Security, (Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht)

A chapter in an edited book

Steiger, H.-J., Etminan, N. and Hänggi, D., 2015. Dissection of the Aneurysm and Principles of Clipping In:, N. Etminan and D. Hänggi (eds), Microsurgical Brain Aneurysms: Illustrated Concepts and Cases, (Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg), 57–66

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., 2015. Breaking Waves Disturb Earth’s Magnetic Field (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, 1992. Tax Systems Modernization: Input Processing Strategy is Risky and Lacks a Sound Analytical Basis, (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

Jahan, M., 2015. A policy to protect hoarders: An analysis of Fair Housing Amendments Act, 1988 (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

Craig, S., 2015. Despite Risks, Cuomo Bets on Solar Power to Lift Buffalo

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiebinger, 2014).
This sentence cites two references (Guillette and Iguchi, 2012; Schiebinger, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Guillette and Iguchi, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Lashuel et al., 2002)

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