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

Endo, M., 2006. Obituary: Setsuro Ebashi (1922-2006) Nature, 442, 996

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu, J.-Q. and Pollard, T.D., 2005. Counting cytokinesis proteins globally and locally in fission yeast Science (New York, N.Y.), 310, 310–314

A journal article with 3 authors

Kang, H., Koh, D.-Y. and Lee, H., 2014. Nondestructive natural gas hydrate recovery driven by air and carbon dioxide Scientific reports, 4, 6616

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Naruse, M., Kim, S.-J., Aono, M., Hori, H. and Ohtsu, M., 2014. Chaotic oscillation and random-number generation based on nanoscale optical-energy transfer Scientific reports, 4, 6039

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Aubry, J.-F. and Brînzei, N., 2015. Systems Dependability Assessment, (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Ferrari, A., 2013. L’arto inferiore nella paralisi cerebrale infantile: Semeiotica e chirurgia funzionale, S. Reverberi and M. G. Benedetti (eds), (Springer: Milano)

A chapter in an edited book

Gent, M.R.A., 2005. On the Stability of Rock Slopes In:, C. Zimmermann , R. G. Dean , V. Penchev , and H. J. Verhagen (eds), Environmentally Friendly Coastal Protection: Proceedings of the NATO Advanced Research Workshop on Environmentally Friendly Coastal Protection Structures Varna, Bulgaria 25–27 May 2004, (Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht), 73–92

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

Andrew, E., 2014. Astronomers Reveal Most Detailed Catalog of Milky Way Stars (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, 2011. Information Technology: HUD’s Expenditure Plan Satisfies Statutory Conditions, and Implementation of Management Controls Is Under Way, (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

Gustus, C.H., 2017. E-Mentoring an Educator in a State School for the Deaf: An Action Research Study (Lindenwood University: St. Charles, MO)

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

Pilon, M. and Lehren, A.W., 2014. Modified Training for Children Stirs New Debates

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Endo, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Wu and Pollard, 2005; Endo, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Wu and Pollard, 2005)
Three or more authors: (Naruse 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

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