About the Journal

Aim & Scope

Aim

Tropical Animal Science Journal aims to publish original research results and reviews on farm tropical animals such as cattle, buffaloes, sheep, goats, pigs, horses, poultry, as well as non domesticated Indonesian endemic animals, such as deers, anoa, babirusa, etc.

Scope

Tropical Animal Science Journal encompasses a broad range of research topics in animal sciences: breeding and genetics, reproduction and physiology, nutrition, feed sciences, agrostology, animal products, biotechnology, behaviour, welfare, health and veterinary, livestock farming system, socio-economic, animal waste management, and policy.

 

Editorial & Review Policy

The suitability of manuscripts for publication in Tropical Animal Science Journal is judged by peer reviewers and editorial board. All the review process are conducted in double-blind review. Chief Editor handles all correspondence with the author and makes the final decision as to whether the paper is recommended for acceptance, rejection, or needs to be returned to the author for revision.

Chief Editor and Section Editors will evaluate the submitted papers on prequalification step for the suitability of further review process. The manuscripts will be evaluated by two or three qualified peer reviewers selected by Chief Editor and Section Editors. The peer reviewers should examine the manuscript and return it with their recommendation to the Chief Editor or Section Editors as soon as possible, usually within 3 weeks. If one of peer reviewers recommends rejection, the Chief Editor will ask a third reviewer or Section Editors to decide the acceptance or rejection of the paper.

Papers needing revision will be returned to the authors, and the authors must return the revised manuscript to the Chief Editor via OJS of Tropical Animal Science Journal. The Chief Editor sends the revised manuscript to the Section Editor to check whether the manuscript has been revised as suggested by peer reviewers. The Section Editor could recommend to the Chief Editor that the manuscript be returned to the authors, accepted, or rejected within 2 weeks. The Chief Editor will send an acceptance letter of the manuscript along with the invoice to the corresponding author(s). After the Chief Editor sends the acceptance letter, the manuscript is forwarded to the technical editor for editing and layout. Later, the Chief Editor will send COPYEDITING and PROOF to authors before it is published.

There are four steps of revision process by authors: 1) revision manuscript to accommodate Section Editors suggestions (prequalification step) within 2 weeks; 2) revision manuscript to accommodate peer reviewer suggestions within 2-4 weeks; 3) revision to accommodate Section Editors suggestions within 2-4 weeks (if any); and 4) revision to accommodate editorial meeting suggestions within 1 week (if any). Manuscripts that exceed the revision deadline will be withdrawn. Authors may request for extension to Chief Editor before the revision expires. The time interval from the date the manuscript is submitted to the acceptance for publication varies, depending on the time required for review and revision process.

Manuscripts are rejected usually for 3 general reasons: 1) The topic of manuscript does not fit in the journal scope and may be better suited for publication elsewhere. 2) The content of the manuscripts does not meet Tropical Animal Science Journal standards; the data may be incomplete; the methodology used is not appropriate; lack of novelties and no advancement of the existing knowledge; or there are no consistency among objectives, research design/method, evidence, and conclusion. 3) The manuscript are not written following Tropical Animal Science Journal guidelines in Instruction to Authors. These manuscripts may be rejected without review process. Manuscripts could also be rejected in the review process if Authors do not revise the manuscripts as suggested by reviewers and editorial board, also do not give response/rebuttal against the suggestions.

If the manuscript is rejected, the Chief Editor will notify the author with a statement of reasons for rejection. The decision letter issued by the Chief Editor is FINAL. For the accepted manuscript, the COPYEDITING of the manuscript will be sent to the corresponding author to ask for some typesetting corrections. Later, the corresponding author will also receive the final version of the manuscript as a PDF file. The PROOF should be read carefully and checked against the typed manuscript, and the corrections may be returned within 7 days. The final PROOF will be published in the specified edition.

Authors submitting manuscripts should understand and agree that copyright of manuscripts of the article shall be assigned/transferred to by Tropical Animal Science Journal. The statement to release the copyright to Tropical Animal Science Journal is stated in Form A. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA) where Authors and Readers can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format, as well as remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose, but they must give appropriate credit (cite to the article or content), provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same license as the original.

 

Publication Frequency

Tropical Animal Science Journal is published FOUR times a year in March, June, September, and December

 

Open Access Policy

This journal provides immediate open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge.

 

How To Register

  1. Author should register in Register menu. 
  2. Author should fulfill the form, especially on the star mark. On the Confirmation Register section, please give your selection as author, reviewer, or both of them.   After all the form was filled, click on "Register" to process the registration.
  3. Please go to User Home and select your role as Author. In Active Submission, click on "Click here: to go to step one of the five-step submission process".
  4. These are the five-step submission process:
  • Step 1. Starting the Submission
    On the Journal Section, select the appropriate section of journal, i.e. Articles. Author has to check-mark on the submission checklists. Author is able to give brief information to Editor about the submitted manuscript on the Comment form.  Please click on the "Save and continue" button to go to the further step.
  • Step 2. Entering the Submission's Metadata.
    Author should enter metadata of all authors engaged in the writing process. The information of manuscript title, abstract, and keywords must be filled in the textbox.

  • Step 3. Uploading the Submission
    To upload manuscript to this journal, author should click Browse to find the manuscript file on the hard drive. Choose the file and click Upload button. Once the submission is uploaded, click Save and Continue on the bottom of this page.

  • Step 4. Uploading Supplementary Files
    The supplementary file should be uploaded is form A, consisting of Statement of Originality and Copyright Release Form. Therefore, click on Browse button, choose the file, click on Upload button, and click on Save and Continue.

  • Step 5. Confirming the Submission
    Author has to check that all documents are complete. To submit the manuscript to Tropical Animal Science Journal, click Finish Submission button. The corresponding author or the principal contact will receive an acknowledgement by email and will be able to view the submission's progress through the editorial process by logging in to the journal website.

Author is able to trace the submission manuscript status, including manuscript review and editorial process by logging in to the journal web.

 

Sponsors

Animal Scientist's Society of Indonesia

 

Journal History

Tropical Animal Science Journal (Trop. Anim. Sci. J.) (p-ISSN 2615-787X and e-ISSN 2615-790X) previously Media Peternakan (published from 1967-2017 with p-ISSN 0126-0476 and e-ISSN 2087-4634) is a scientific journal covering broad aspects of tropical animal sciences. Starting in 2018, the title is changed from Media Peternakan in order to develop and expand the distribution as well as increase the visibility of the journal. The journal is published FOUR times a year in March, June, September, and December starting from the year 2020 by the Faculty of Animal Science, IPB University (Bogor Agricultural University), associated with the Animal Scientist's Society of Indonesia.

The first edition with the new title was published in April 2018 edition (Vol 41 No 1 2018), while the previous edition (up to 2017 edition) still uses Media Peternakan as the title. The online version of Tropical Animal Science Journal could be accessed on the new website (http://journal.ipb.ac.id/index.php/tasj) and the previous editions are available on the old website (https://journal.ipb.ac.id/index.php/mediapeternakan).

Tropical Animal Science Journal has been indexed and abstracted in Elsevier products (Scopus, Reaxys), Clarivate Analytics products (Emerging Sources Citation Index), Scimago Journal Rank, ASEAN Citation Index, DOAJ, Dimensions-Digital Science, CABI, EBSCO, Science and Technology Index (SINTA), Google Scholar, and other scientific databases. The journal also uses Similarity Check to prevent any suspected plagiarism in the manuscripts.

 

Advertising Policy

Tropical Animal Science Journal does not receive an advertisement.