How to format your references using the Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. Wright AR. Realising Haldane’s vision for a Chern insulator in buckled lattices. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2736.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dove CJ, Straker LC. Comment on “A diverse assemblage of Late Cretaceous dinosaur and bird feathers from Canadian amber.” Science. 2012;335:796; author reply 796.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ichimura T, Fujiwara K, Tanaka H. Dual field effects in electrolyte-gated spinel ferrite: electrostatic carrier doping and redox reactions. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5818.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Mitton-Fry RM, Anderson EM, Hughes TR, Lundblad V, Wuttke DS. Conserved structure for single-stranded telomeric DNA recognition. Science. 2002;296:145–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Chartered Institute of Building. Code of Practice for Programme Management in the Built Environment. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Cambria E. Sentic Computing: A Common-Sense-Based Framework for Concept-Level Sentiment Analysis. 1st ed. 2015. Hussain A, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Stenbacka S. “The Rural” Intervening in the Lives of Internal and International Migrants: Migrants, Biographies and Translocal Practices. In: Hedberg C, do Carmo RM, editors. Translocal Ruralism: Mobility and Connectivity in European Rural Spaces. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012. p. 55–72.

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 Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases.

Blog post

1. Andrew D. Orange Juice Is The Biggest Con Of Your Life. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Buy America Requirements: Federal Enforcement Questioned in Sacramento Mass Transit Procurement. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Sep. Report No.: RCED-87-162FS.

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mullican CD. Multiple Intelligences in the Text: Examining the Presence of Multiple Intelligences Tasks in the Annotated Teacher’s Editions of Four High School United States History Textbooks [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 2012.

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

1. Cooper M. National Opera Names General Director. New York Times. 2017 Sep 22;C3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1,2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Venomous Animals and Toxins including Tropical Diseases
Abbreviation	J. Venom. Anim. Toxins Incl. Trop. Dis.
ISSN (online)	1678-9199
Scope	Animal Science and Zoology Parasitology Infectious Diseases Toxicology