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

Bass, S.D., 2007: Physics. How does the proton spin? Science 315, 1672–1673.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kang, T.M., and D.W. Hilgemann, 2004: Multiple transport modes of the cardiac Na+/Ca2+ exchanger. Nature 427, 544–548.

A journal article with 3 authors

Arash, B., Q. Wang, and V.K. Varadan, 2014: Mechanical properties of carbon nanotube/polymer composites. Sci. Rep. 4, 6479.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wang, M., L. Fu, L. Gan, C. Zhang, M. Rümmeli, A. Bachmatiuk, K. Huang, Y. Fang, and Z. Liu, 2013: CVD growth of large area smooth-edged graphene nanomesh by nanosphere lithography. Sci. Rep. 3, 1238.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Lißner, K., and W. Rug, 2016: Der Eurocode 5 Für Deutschland Eurocode 5: Bemessung Und Konstruktion von Holzbauten. Berlin, Germany: Wilhelm Ernst & Sohn Verlag für Architektur und technische Wissenschaften GmbH & Co. KG.

An edited book

Whittaker, D., and S. Lappan (Eds.), 2009: The Gibbons: New Perspectives on Small Ape Socioecology and Population Biology. New York, NY: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Yang, C., H. Ma, and M. Fu, 2016: Visual Servoing Control of Robot Manipulator, pp. 157–185. 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 (26. October): IFLScience, Daylight Savings Is Linked To Injuries And Heart Attacks, Is It Time To Scrap It? [Online] Available at https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/daylight-savings-linked-injuries-and-heart-attacks-it-time-scrap-it/ (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, 1996: Airline Deregulation: Barriers to Entry Continue to Limit Competition in Several Key Domestic Markets (No. RCED-97-4). 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

Fay, C., 2017: Aposematic Variation and the Evolution of Warning Coloration in Mammals (Doctoral dissertation). PhD thesis, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Koblin, J., 2017 (27. October): Political Journalist Halperin Posts Apology to Women He ‘Mistreated.’ p. B6, New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Bass, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Kang and Hilgemann, 2004; Bass, 2007).

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

Two authors: (Kang and Hilgemann, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Wang et al., 2013)

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