How to format your references using the Transboundary and Emerging Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transboundary and Emerging 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	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

Capone, D.G., 2006: Microbiology. Ramping up the heat on nitrogenase. Science 314, 1691–1692.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sahin, M., and M. Sur, 2015: Genes, circuits, and precision therapies for autism and related neurodevelopmental disorders. Science 350.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schmittner, A., M. Yoshimori, and A.J. Weaver, 2002: Instability of glacial climate in a model of the ocean- atmosphere-cryosphere system. Science 295, 1489–1493.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Silver, R.A., J. Lubke, B. Sakmann, and D. Feldmeyer, 2003: High-probability uniquantal transmission at excitatory synapses in barrel cortex. Science 302, 1981–1984.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Niven, P.R., 2014: Balanced Scorecard Evolution. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Gordon, I.J. (Ed.), 2009: The Vicuña: The Theory and Practice of Community Based Wildlife Management. Boston, MA: Springer US.

A chapter in an edited book

Yang, C., H. Ma, and M. Fu, 2016: Object Detection and Tracking, pp. 97–156. In: Ma, Hongbin, and Mengyin Fu (eds), Advanced Technologies in Modern Robotic Applications. Singapore: Springer.

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 Transboundary and Emerging Diseases.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015 (31. July): IFLScience, 18-Foot-Long Burmese Python Found And Caught In Florida [Online] Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/18-foot-long-burmese-python-found-and-caught-florida/ (accessed October 30, 2018). IFLScience.

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, 1972: Drug Abuse Control Program Activities in Okinawa (No. B-164031(2)). 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

Savvas, C., 2010: Hydroclimate variability and landuse effects on nutrient export from watersheds in the mid-Atlantic United States (Doctoral dissertation). PhD thesis, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC.

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 (1. August): World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Orthodox Church Berates Vatican. p. A10, New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Capone, 2006).
This sentence cites two references (Capone, 2006; Sahin and Sur, 2015).

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

Two authors: (Sahin and Sur, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Silver et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
Abbreviation	Transbound. Emerg. Dis.
ISSN (print)	1865-1674
ISSN (online)	1865-1682
Scope	General Immunology and Microbiology General Medicine General Veterinary