How to format your references using the Tobacco Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tobacco Control. 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	Download the output style file
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

Schmidt D. Science & SciLifeLab Prize. Evolution of vertebrate transcriptional regulator binding. Science. 2013;342:1186.

A journal article with 2 authors

Crone TJ, Tolstoy M. Magnitude of the 2010 Gulf of Mexico oil leak. Science. 2010;330:634.

A journal article with 3 authors

Saitta EKH, Legron-Rodriguez T, Bowdon MA. IBI* series winner. An inquiry into the water around us. Science. 2013;341:971–2.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Liphardt J, Onoa B, Smith SB, et al. Reversible unfolding of single RNA molecules by mechanical force. Science. 2001;292:733–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li FM, Nathan A, Wu Y, et al. Organic Thin Film Transistor Integration. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA 2011.

An edited book

Khokhlov AR, editor. Conformation-Dependent Design of Sequences in Copolymers II. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Csajbók ZE, Mihálydeák T. From Vagueness to Rough Sets in Partial Approximation Spaces. In: Kryszkiewicz M, Cornelis C, Ciucci D, et al., eds. Rough Sets and Intelligent Systems Paradigms: Second International Conference, RSEISP 2014, Held as Part of JRS 2014, Granada and Madrid, Spain, July 9-13, 2014. Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2014:42–52.

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 Tobacco Control.

Blog post

Fang J. Easter Islanders Mixed With Native Americans Centuries Before Europeans Arrived. IFLScience. 2014. (accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. James Webb Space Telescope: Project Facing Increased Schedule Risk with Significant Work Remaining. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ballard KJ. Frequent factors for psychiatric hospital readmission. 2012.

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

Walsh MW. New Treasury Rules Ease 401(k) Annuity Purchase. New York Times. 2012;B4.

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	Tobacco Control
Abbreviation	Tob. Control
ISSN (print)	0964-4563
ISSN (online)	1468-3318
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Health(social science)