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. Omelon S. Graduate journal: conference survival. Nature. 2004;427:570.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Cohen J, Stewart I. Where are the dolphins? Nature. 2001;409:1119–22.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Blomster JP, Neff H, Glascock MD. Olmec pottery production and export in ancient Mexico determined through elemental analysis. Science. 2005;307:1068–72.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ogawa S, Imada M, Yoshimoto S, Okano M, Noda S. Control of light emission by 3D photonic crystals. Science. 2004;305:227–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ahmad SR, Cartwright M. Laser Ignition of Energetic Materials. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Hameurlain A, Küng J, Wagner R, editors. Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems V. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Siva Raja PM, Baburaj E. Edge Based LSBMR Scheme for Hiding Secret Messages with Genetic Algorithms. In: S M, Kumar SS, editors. Proceedings of the Fourth International Conference on Signal and Image Processing 2012 (ICSIP 2012): Volume 1. New Delhi: Springer India; 2013. p. 37–47.

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. Andrews R. China Scraps Coal Power Plants And Boosts Renewable Energy Investment [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-scraps-coal-power-plants-boosts-renewable-energy-investment/

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. Transportation Infrastructure: States Benefit From Block Grant Flexibility. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Jun. Report No.: RCED-90-126.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Fay C. Aposematic Variation and the Evolution of Warning Coloration in Mammals [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Swarns RL, Robertson C. Black Church Is Target Again for Deadly Strike at the Heart. New York Times. 2015 Jun 20;A1.

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