Submission Checklist

Please be sure to read the Instructions for Authors at the Animal Bioscience (AB) website (http://www.animbiosci.org). Also use the following checklist to ensure that all necessary actions have been completed and that all required items have been incorporated prior to submission. Read and check all of the following boxes.

1. □ Manuscript should be prepared according to AB styles and formats (See Style Guide and Sample Manuscript).
2. □ Include a separate title page with full contact addresses of corresponding author(s) and ORCID number of all authors.
3. □ The corresponding author has read and signed AB Author Declaration Form (Below)
4. □ Information of a preprint (DOI, licensing) should be given in the title page. It is mandatory for authors to submit their manuscript to the preprint journals.
5. □ Include, at the end of the main text, proper statements on conflict of interest, authors’ contribution, funding, acknowledgements, supplementary material, data availability, ethics approval and declaration of generative AI usage (see Guide for Authors or Style Guide for details).
6. □ Include a list of recommended reviewers (optional); Please avoid recommending reviewers from the same country and who may have conflict of interest with any of coauthors.
7. □ Copy of certificate for English editing service, if any (optional)

Author Declaration Form

Please read statements and tick boxes to check off.

□  Author Responsibility

• All authors have seen and approved the content of the submitted manuscript.
• The article presents original work neither previously published in part or whole nor currently under consideration by another journal.
• If the article contains material (data or information in any other form) that is the intellectual property and copyright of any person(s) other than the author(s), then permission of the copyright owner(s) to publish that material has been obtained, and is clearly identified and appropriately acknowledged.
• The authors followed AB ethics guidelines.
• See the AUTHORSHIP in Instructions for Authors.

□  Publication Fee

• Corresponding author (otherwise, one of the coauthors) will be responsible for the publication fee (see ARTICLE PROCESSING CHARGE policy in Instructions for Authors).

□  Copyright Transfer Agreement

In the occasion of the final acceptance of this manuscript, the authors of the article hereby agree that the Asian-Australasian Association of Animal Production Societies holds the copyright on all materials and the right to publish, transmit, sell and distribute them in the journal or other media.

The form is signed by the corresponding author on behalf of all coauthors of this paper.