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

Bobrow, M., 2015. Funders must encourage scientists to share. Nature 522, 129.

A journal article with 2 authors

Maher, K., Chamberlain, C.P., 2014. Hydrologic regulation of chemical weathering and the geologic carbon cycle. Science 343, 1502–1504.

A journal article with 3 authors

Srianand, R., Petitjean, P., Ledoux, C., 2000. The cosmic microwave background radiation temperature at a redshift of 2.34. Nature 408, 931–935.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Tomai, T., Mitani, S., Komatsu, D., Kawaguchi, Y., Honma, I., 2014. Metal-free aqueous redox capacitor via proton rocking-chair system in an organic-based couple. Sci. Rep. 4, 3591.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Knowles, R., 2008. 150 Contractual Problems and their Solutions. Blackwell Publishing Ltd, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Sauer, H., Shah, A.M., Laurindo, F.R.M. (Eds.), 2010. Studies on Cardiovascular Disorders, Oxidative Stress in Applied Basic Research and Clinical Practice. Humana Press, Totowa, NJ.

A chapter in an edited book

Liu, J., 2006. Towards Network Autonomy, in: Wang, G.-Y., Peters, J.F., Skowron, A., Yao, Y. (Eds.), Rough Sets and Knowledge Technology: First International Conference, RSKT 2006, Chongquing, China, July 24-26, 2006. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 32–32.

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

Andrew, E., 2015. Dark Grape Compound May Help The Body Burn Fat [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/dark-grape-compound-may-help-body-burn-fat/ (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, 1995. [Comments on FAA Employee’s Claim for Temporary Quarters Subsistence Expenses] (No. B-257914). 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

Allen, S.A., 2014. Dispersed Social Work: Understanding Social Presence and Organizational Identification Through the Use of New Communication Technologies (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Crow, K., 2002. Fight Heats Up Again Over Grassy Bed of Rails. New York Times 146.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bobrow, 2015).
This sentence cites two references (Bobrow, 2015; Maher and Chamberlain, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Maher and Chamberlain, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Tomai et al., 2014)

About the journal

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