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. Knudsen EI. Instructed learning in the auditory localization pathway of the barn owl. Nature. 2002;417:322–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ramos SBV, Laederach A. Molecular biology: A second layer of information in RNA. Nature. 2014;505:621–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Ambrose KV, Koppenhöfer AM, Belanger FC. Horizontal gene transfer of a bacterial insect toxin gene into the Epichloë fungal symbionts of grasses. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5562.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Koçer ZA, Fan Y, Huether R, Obenauer J, Webby RJ, Zhang J, et al. Survival analysis of infected mice reveals pathogenic variations in the genome of avian H1N1 viruses. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7455.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. da Silva LS, Simões R, Gervásio H. Design of Steel Structures. Berlin, Germany: Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG; 2012.

An edited book

1. Cooper G, editor. Therapeutic Uses of Botulinum Toxin. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Schwartz DD, Axelrad ME, Hilliard ME. Interventions to Promote Adherence: Innovations in Behavior Change Strategies. In: Axelrad ME, editor. Healthcare Partnerships for Pediatric Adherence: Promoting Collaborative Management for Pediatric Chronic Illness Care. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 51–62.

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. Genetically Modified Lamb with Jellyfish Protein Accidentally Sold as Meat in Paris. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015.

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. Denial of Protest Involving Solicitation’s Evaluation Standard. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975 Feb. Report No.: B-181165.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Allard IN. Examining the relationship between organizational culture and performance: Moderators of culture gap [Doctoral dissertation]. [Scottsdale, AZ]: Northcentral University; 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. Oestreich JR. Is It Really Opera? That’s Beside the Point. New York Times. 2017 May 5;C6.

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

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