How to format your references using the Acta Tropica citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acta Tropica. 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 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

Vilenkin, A., 2006. Astronomy. The vacuum energy crisis. Science 312, 1148–1149.

A journal article with 2 authors

Piskorowski, R., Aldrich, R.W., 2002. Calcium activation of BK(Ca) potassium channels lacking the calcium bowl and RCK domains. Nature 420, 499–502.

A journal article with 3 authors

Werfel, J., Petersen, K., Nagpal, R., 2014. Designing collective behavior in a termite-inspired robot construction team. Science 343, 754–758.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bowers, P.M., Cokus, S.J., Eisenberg, D., Yeates, T.O., 2004. Use of logic relationships to decipher protein network organization. Science 306, 2246–2249.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dujmović, D., Androić, B., Lukačević, I., 2014. Composite Structures According to Eurocode 4. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Srivastava, S., 2010. Novel Biomaterials: Decontamination of Toxic Metals from Wastewater, Environmental Science and Engineering. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Gerbush, M., Lewko, A., O’Neill, A., Waters, B., 2012. Dual Form Signatures: An Approach for Proving Security from Static Assumptions, in: Wang, X., Sako, K. (Eds.), Advances in Cryptology – ASIACRYPT 2012: 18th International Conference on the Theory and Application of Cryptology and Information Security, Beijing, China, December 2-6, 2012. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 25–42.

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 Acta Tropica.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2015. Conservationists to Engrave Every Critically Endangered Ploughshare Tortoise [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/conservationists-engrave-every-critically-endangered-ploughshare-tortoise/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2012. Information Technology: DHS Needs to Enhance Management of Cost and Schedule for Major Investments (No. GAO-12-904). 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

Davenport, C.S., 2017. Dynamic Modeling Framework to Predict Instantaneous Status of a Tractor-Dolly System (Doctoral dissertation). Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS.

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

Kelly, C., 2013. The Literary Journal And the Small Press Live On, in Austin. New York Times A31B.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Vilenkin, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Piskorowski and Aldrich, 2002; Vilenkin, 2006).

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

Two authors: (Piskorowski and Aldrich, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Bowers et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Acta Tropica
Abbreviation	Acta Trop.
ISSN (print)	0001-706X
Scope	Parasitology General Medicine Infectious Diseases