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. Paszkowski J. Epigenetics: The karma of oil palms. Nature. 2015;525:466–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Baum J, Cowman AF. Biochemistry. Revealing a parasite’s invasive trick. Science. 2011;333:410–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Long SB, Campbell EB, Mackinnon R. Crystal structure of a mammalian voltage-dependent Shaker family K+ channel. Science. 2005;309:897–903.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Damanik FFR, Rothuizen TC, van Blitterswijk C, Rotmans JI, Moroni L. Towards an in vitro model mimicking the foreign body response: tailoring the surface properties of biomaterials to modulate extracellular matrix. Sci Rep. 2014;4:6325.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bajorski P. Statistics for Imaging, Optics, and Photonics: Bajorski/Statistics for Imaging. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Castro F de, Hogenboom B, Baud M, editors. Environmental Governance in Latin America. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Candilis PJ, Weinstock R, Martinez R. Theories and Perspectives from Other Quarters. In: Weinstock R, Martinez R, editors. Forensic Ethics and the Expert Witness. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007. p. 77–96.

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 E. Amazing Time-lapse Shows A Fly Emerging From Its Pupa [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/watch-fly-emerging-its-pupa/

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. Need for a Government-Wide Budget Classification Structure for Federal Research and Development Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 Mar. Report No.: PAD-77-14.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Calhoun GF. Limit theory for overfit models [Doctoral dissertation]. [La Jolla, CA]: University of California San Diego; 2009.

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. ‘The Third Tenor’ Exits. New York Times. 2017 Sep 22;C1.

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