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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Feringa, B.L., 2001. Chemistry. A new twist on chirality Science (New York, N.Y.), 292, 2021–2022

A journal article with 2 authors

Théry, M. and Casas, J., 2002. Predator and prey views of spider camouflage Nature, 415, 133

A journal article with 3 authors

Klein, Y., Efrati, E. and Sharon, E., 2007. Shaping of elastic sheets by prescription of non-Euclidean metrics Science (New York, N.Y.), 315, 1116–1120

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Siegel, J.B., Zanghellini, A., Lovick, H.M., Kiss, G., Lambert, A.R., St Clair, J.L., Gallaher, J.L., Hilvert, D., Gelb, M.H., Stoddard, B.L., Houk, K.N., Michael, F.E. and Baker, D., 2010. Computational design of an enzyme catalyst for a stereoselective bimolecular Diels-Alder reaction Science (New York, N.Y.), 329, 309–313

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Levin, R., 2011. Implementing the Wealth Management Index, (John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ)

An edited book

Chockler, H., Kroening, D., Mariani, L. and Sharygina, N. (eds), 2015. Validation of Evolving Software, (Springer International Publishing: Cham)

A chapter in an edited book

Sano, Y. and Richards, L.N., 2011. Physical Health, Food Security, and Economic Well-Being: The Rural Perspective In:, J. W. Bauer and E. M. Dolan (eds), Rural Families and Work: Context and Problems, (Springer: New York, NY), 77–98

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

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. Watch Live As SpaceX Relaunches One Of Its Rockets For The First Time Today (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, 2002. Pipeline Safety and Security: Improved Workforce Planning and Communication Needed, (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

Duggimpudi, M.B., 2017. Object Ranking Algorithms for Improved Decision Making (University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA)

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

Baker, L., 2009. Riding the Oil Market, Calgary Builds Up

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Feringa, 2001).
This sentence cites two references (Feringa, 2001; Théry and Casas, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Théry and Casas, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Siegel et al., 2010)

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