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

McCabe, H., 2000. France may bid for fusion reactor. Nature 406, 447.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kleckner, D., Bouwmeester, D., 2006. Sub-kelvin optical cooling of a micromechanical resonator. Nature 444, 75–78.

A journal article with 3 authors

Hines, P.J., Jasny, B.R., Mervis, J., 2009. Adding a T to the three R’s. Education & technology. Introduction. Science 323, 53.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nam, M.-S., Ardavan, A., Blundell, S.J., Schlueter, J.A., 2007. Fluctuating superconductivity in organic molecular metals close to the Mott transition. Nature 449, 584–587.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Biegelman, M.T., 2013. Faces of Fraud. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Liu, C.-L., Hussain, A., Luo, B., Tan, K.C., Zeng, Y., Zhang, Z. (Eds.), 2016. Advances in Brain Inspired Cognitive Systems: 8th International Conference, BICS 2016, Beijing, China, November 28-30, 2016, Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Sekine, Y., 2006. Informed Consent, in: Sugano, K., Yamamoto, H., Kita, H. (Eds.), Double-Balloon Endoscopy: Theory and Practice. Springer Japan, Tokyo, pp. 15–18.

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., 2017. Scientists Reprogram Skin Cells To Hunt Down And Shrink Brain Tumors [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (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, 1973. Additional Costs Incurred in Maintaining the National Industrial Equipment Reserve (NIER) (No. B-125187). 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

Tu, K.N., 2013. Novel bivalent organophosphates as inhibitors of butyrylcholinesterase — Compounds with potential for treatment of Alzheimer’s disease and studies in the development of asymmetric catalytic Kabachnik-Fields reaction (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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, M., 2009. Stranger in the Night. New York Times CY3.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (McCabe, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Kleckner and Bouwmeester, 2006; McCabe, 2000).

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

Two authors: (Kleckner and Bouwmeester, 2006)
Three or more authors: (Nam et al., 2007)

About the journal

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