How to format your references using the Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. 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

[1]

Adam D. Plastics that conduct win inventors chemistry prize. Nature 2000;407:662.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Koch SW, Knorr A. Applied physics. Optics in the nano-world. Science 2001;293:2217–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Xu B, Wang Q, Tian Y. Bulk modulus for polar covalent crystals. Sci Rep 2013;3:3068.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Honda Y, Ding X, Mussano F, Wiberg A, Ho C-M, Nishimura I. Guiding the osteogenic fate of mouse and human mesenchymal stem cells through feedback system control. Sci Rep 2013;3:3420.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bayés de Luna A. Clinical Arrhythmology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Chakraborty UK, editor. Advances in Differential Evolution. vol. 143. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gunn C. Online Assessment and Learner Motivation in the Twenty-First Century. In: Koh C, editor. Motivation, Leadership and Curriculum design: Engaging the Net Generation and 21st Century Learners, Singapore: Springer; 2015, p. 53–62.

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 Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease.

Blog post

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Andrew D. What Is Normal Vaginal Discharge And What’s Not? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/what-is-normal-vaginal-discharge-and-whats-not/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. The Job Training Partnership Act: Abuse of On-The-Job Training and Other Contracting Is an Ongoing Problem. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Duncan EA. Environmental controls of black abalone body temperature determine risks of thermal stress and disease. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2017.

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

[1]

Crair B. Books; Instagram Effect. New York Times 2017:ST3.

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	Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease
Abbreviation	Travel Med. Infect. Dis.
ISSN (print)	1477-8939
Scope	Infectious Diseases Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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