How to format your references using the The Vaccine Companion citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Vaccine Companion. 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]

Woods CG. Neuroscience. Crossing the midline. Science 2004;304:1455–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Alabugin I, Mohamed RK. Chemistry. A CO₂ cloak for the cyanide dagger. Science 2014;344:45–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Suttmeier RP, Cao C, Simon DF. Priorities and funding. “Knowledge innovation” and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Science 2006;312:58–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhao J, Sun BK, Erwin JA, Song J-J, Lee JT. Polycomb proteins targeted by a short repeat RNA to the mouse X chromosome. Science 2008;322:750–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Lueder E. 3D Displays. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Gupta AK. Elliptically Contoured Models in Statistics and Portfolio Theory. 2nd ed. 2013. New York, NY: Springer; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Iwahori Y, Shibata K, Kawanaka H, Funahashi K, Woodham RJ, Adachi Y. Shape from SEM Image Using Fast Marching Method and Intensity Modification by Neural Network. In: Tweedale JW, Jain LC, editors. Recent Advances in Knowledge-based Paradigms and Applications: Enhanced Applications Using Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Techniques, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014, p. 73–86.

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 The Vaccine Companion.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. Century-Old Mystery of Epic Eel Migration Solved. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/century-old-mystery-epic-eel-migration-solved/ (accessed October 30, 2018).

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. [Comments on NASA Agreement With Firm for Commercial Launch Services]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1986.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Caldretti M. Vocal Pedagogy and the Adolescent Female Singing Voice. Doctoral dissertation. 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]

Vecsey G. France Loses to the U.S., With Typical Elegance. New York Times 2011:B15.

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	The Vaccine Companion
ISSN (print)	1876-0775
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