How to format your references using the Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ticks and Tick-borne 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

Snyder, S.H., 2005. Obituary: Julius Axelrod (1912-2004). Nature 433, 593.

A journal article with 2 authors

Robinton, D.A., Daley, G.Q., 2012. The promise of induced pluripotent stem cells in research and therapy. Nature 481, 295–305.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vajda, V., Raine, J.I., Hollis, C.J., 2001. Indication of global deforestation at the Cretaceous-Tertiary boundary by New Zealand fern spike. Science 294, 1700–1702.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Gregson, S., Garnett, G.P., Nyamukapa, C.A., Hallett, T.B., Lewis, J.J.C., Mason, P.R., Chandiwana, S.K., Anderson, R.M., 2006. HIV decline associated with behavior change in eastern Zimbabwe. Science 311, 664–666.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen, W.-Y., 2013. NeuroInvesting. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Fan, X.J., Suhir, E. (Eds.), 2010. Moisture Sensitivity of Plastic Packages of IC Devices, Micro- and Opto-Electronic Materials, Structures, and Systems. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Orsi, F., 2015. HCC, in: Van Cutsem, E., Vogl, T.J., Orsi, F., Sobrero, A. (Eds.), Locoregional Tumor Therapy. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 31–54.

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 Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015. Why US And Chinese Cities Will Make Or Break Any Global Climate Deal [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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

Government Accountability Office, 1985. School District Officials Face Problems in Dealing With Asbestos in Their Schools (No. RCED-85-91). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Dusso, A.P., 2010. The psychology of institutional development: How parties’ willingness to accept risk affects the districts they draw and the seats they win (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Eligon, J., 2016. On Big Stage, Ward Makes Big Statement. New York Times SP9.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Snyder, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Robinton and Daley, 2012; Snyder, 2005).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Robinton and Daley, 2012)
Three or more authors: (Gregson et al., 2006)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
Abbreviation	Ticks Tick Borne Dis.
ISSN (print)	1877-959X
Scope	Insect Science Microbiology Parasitology Infectious Diseases