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

Moore, J.P., 2002. AIDS vaccines: on the trail of two trials. Nature 415, 365–366.

A journal article with 2 authors

Mattila, H.R., Seeley, T.D., 2007. Genetic diversity in honey bee colonies enhances productivity and fitness. Science 317, 362–364.

A journal article with 3 authors

Yan, Z., Cai, M., Shen, P.K., 2013. Nanosized tungsten carbide synthesized by a novel route at low temperature for high performance electrocatalysis. Sci. Rep. 3, 1646.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jaworski, T., Dewachter, I., Lechat, B., Gees, M., Kremer, A., Demedts, D., Borghgraef, P., Devijver, H., Kügler, S., Patel, S., Woodgett, J.R., Van Leuven, F., 2011. GSK-3α/β kinases and amyloid production in vivo. Nature 480, E4-5; discussion E6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Phillips, J.J., Phillips, P., Pulliam, A., 2014. Measuring ROI in Environment, Health, and Safety. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Ehrentraut, D., Meissner, E., Bockowski, M. (Eds.), 2010. Technology of Gallium Nitride Crystal Growth, Springer Series in Materials Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Hansson, S.O., 2016. Evaluating the Uncertainties, in: Hansson, S.O., Hirsch Hadorn, G. (Eds.), The Argumentative Turn in Policy Analysis: Reasoning about Uncertainty, Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 79–104.

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. Gaming Improves Your Brain Power – Reality Or Hype? [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, 1994. Highway Safety: Factors Affecting Involvement in Vehicle Crashes (No. PEMD-95-3). 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

Lintott, R.W., 2010. The manipulation of time perception in John Adams’s “Doctor Atomic” (Doctoral dissertation). University of Maryland, College Park, College Park, MD.

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

(nyt), S.K., 2002. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Kremlin’s Man Wins Post Near Chechnya. New York Times A15.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Moore, 2002).
This sentence cites two references (Mattila and Seeley, 2007; Moore, 2002).

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

Two authors: (Mattila and Seeley, 2007)
Three or more authors: (Jaworski et al., 2011)

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