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

White, T.W., 2002. Unique and redundant connexin contributions to lens development. Science 295, 319–320.

A journal article with 2 authors

Liechti, R., Farmer, E.E., 2002. The jasmonate pathway. Science 296, 1649–1650.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dasen, J.S., Liu, J.-P., Jessell, T.M., 2003. Motor neuron columnar fate imposed by sequential phases of Hox-c activity. Nature 425, 926–933.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bhattacharya, K., Conti, S., Zanzotto, G., Zimmer, J., 2004. Crystal symmetry and the reversibility of martensitic transformations. Nature 428, 55–59.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Young, S., Bramham, J., 2012. Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy for ADHD in Adolescents and Adults. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Ebrahim-Zadeh, M., Sorokina, I.T. (Eds.), 2008. Mid-Infrared Coherent Sources and Applications, NATO Science for Peace and Security Series B: Physics and Biophysics. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Danuser, B., 2014. The Role of Psychosocial Factors in Musculoskeletal Disorders, in: Hämmig, O. (Ed.), Bridging Occupational, Organizational and Public Health: A Transdisciplinary Approach. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 69–90.

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

Fang, J., 2016. This Lacewing Bacterium Kills Only Males [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/this-lacewing-bacterium-kills-only-males/ (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, 1991. Automobile Weight and Safety (No. T-PEMD-91-2). 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

Lutchman, C., 2008. Leadership impact on turnover among power engineers in the Oil Sands of Alberta (Doctoral dissertation). University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Park, L.S., 2015. Look on the Bright Side. New York Times BR18.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (White, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Liechti and Farmer, 2002; White, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Liechti and Farmer, 2002)
Three or more authors: (Bhattacharya et al., 2004)

About the journal

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