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. Roff D. Evolution. Evolutionary danger for rainforest species. Science. 2003;301:58–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Nacher JC, Akutsu T. Structural controllability of unidirectional bipartite networks. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1647.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zheng X, Zhang R, Huang H. Theoretical modeling of relative humidity on contact electrification of sand particles. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4399.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Imhoff ML, Bounoua L, Ricketts T, Loucks C, Harriss R, Lawrence WT. Global patterns in human consumption of net primary production. Nature. 2004;429:870–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kothari V. Credit Derivatives and Structured Credit Trading. 2 Clementi Loop, #02-01, Singapore 129809: John Wiley & Sons (Asia) Pte. Ltd.; 2008.

An edited book

1. Sachse A. OpenGeoSys-Tutorial: Computational Hydrology I: Groundwater Flow Modeling. Rink K, He W, Kolditz O, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Ferrari A, Reverberi S, Benedetti MG. Deformità in cavismo del piede. In: Reverberi S, Benedetti MG, editors. L’arto inferiore nella paralisi cerebrale infantile: Semeiotica e chirurgia funzionale. Milano: Springer; 2013. p. 111–7.

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. Hale T. Controversial Study Wants To Resurrect Brain-Dead People [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/controversial-study-wants-to-resurrect-braindead-people/

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. Child Care and Early Childhood Education: More Information Sharing and Program Review by HHS Could Enhance Access for Families with Limited English Proficiency (Spanish Version). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Aug. Report No.: GAO-06-949.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Masuyama G. The Bird Is A Word [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Quain JR. Carmakers Employ Technology to Give Vehicles Well-Tuned Interiors. New York Times. 2016 Nov 10;B3.

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