How to format your references using the World Organisation for Animal Health - Scientific and Technical Review citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Organisation for Animal Health - Scientific and Technical Review. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Hoffert M. (2011). – Governments must pay for clean-energy innovation. Nature, 472 (7342), 137.

A journal article with 2 authors

Elsner C. & Abel B. (2014). – Ultrafast high-resolution mass spectrometric finger pore imaging in latent finger prints. Sci. Rep., 4, 6905.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bhagat D., Samanta S.K. & Bhattacharya S. (2013). – Efficient management of fruit pests by pheromone nanogels. Sci. Rep., 3, 1294.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Algra R.E., Verheijen M.A., Borgström M.T., Feiner L.F., Immink G., Enckevort W.J.P. van, Vlieg E. & Bakkers E.P.A.M. (2008). – Twinning superlattices in indium phosphide nanowires. Nature, 456 (7220), 369–372.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lunt R.R. & Cunic J.D. (2000). – Profiles in Flue Gas Desulfurization. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Kamat R.K. (2009). – Unleash the System On Chip using FPGAs and Handel C. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Falcocchio J.C. & Levinson H.S. (2015). – Overview of the Causes of Congestion. . In Road Traffic Congestion: A Concise Guide (H.S. Levinson, ed), Springer International Publishing, Cham. pp 35–37

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 World Organisation for Animal Health - Scientific and Technical Review.

Blog post

Andrew E. (2014). – Mysterious Ovoid Structure in Martian Meteorite Looks Like A Cell. 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 (1991). – Weather Satellites: Action Needed to Resolve Status of the U.S. Geostationary Satellite Program. 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

Elder R. (2015). – A Mixed-Method Investigation of the Missouri Pre-Service Teacher Assessment Pilot Program at a Private Midwestern University.

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

Hale M. (2017). – It’s Hard Out There For Mercy Killers. New York Times, , C6.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	World Organisation for Animal Health - Scientific and Technical Review
Abbreviation	Rev. Sci. Tech.
ISSN (print)	0253-1933
ISSN (online)	1608-0637
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology General Medicine