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

Rochmyaningsih D. (2015). – Indigenous peoples must benefit from science. Nature, 526 (7574), 477.

A journal article with 2 authors

Matsumoto M. & Hikosaka O. (2007). – Lateral habenula as a source of negative reward signals in dopamine neurons. Nature, 447 (7148), 1111–1115.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stone L., Olinky R. & Huppert A. (2007). – Seasonal dynamics of recurrent epidemics. Nature, 446 (7135), 533–536.

A journal article with 99 or more authors

Celler K., Hödl I., Simone A., Battin T.J. & Picioreanu C. (2014). – A mass-spring model unveils the morphogenesis of phototrophic Diatoma biofilms. Sci. Rep., 4, 3649.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shi Y., Liu M. & Fang F. (2017). – Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Chudnovsky D. & Chudnovsky G., eds. (2010). – Additive Number Theory: Festschrift In Honor of the Sixtieth Birthday of Melvyn B. Nathanson. 1st ed., Springer, New York, NY.

A chapter in an edited book

Alonso J., Paredes R. & Rosso P. (2015). – Empirical Evaluation of Different Feature Representations for Social Circles Detection. . In Pattern Recognition and Image Analysis: 7th Iberian Conference, IbPRIA 2015, Santiago de Compostela, Spain, June 17-19, 2015, Proceedings (R. Paredes, J.S. Cardoso & X.M. Pardo, eds), Springer International Publishing, Cham. pp 31–38

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

Davis J. (2015). – Scientists Plan to Spy on Sharks Using Camera Traps. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-plan-spy-sharks-using-camera-traps/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 (2007). – Motor Carrier Safety: Federal Safety Agency Identifies Many High-Risk Carriers but Does Not Assess Maximum Fines as Often as Required by Law. 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

Rossi G. (2010). – Anesthesiology, geriatric surgery, and the risk of post-operative cognitive dysfunction.

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

Schmidt M.S., Haberman M. & Apuzzo M. (2017). – Wary of Mueller, Trump’s Team Is Investigating His Investigators. New York Times, , A1.

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