How to format your references using the Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines. 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. Gottfried K. Matter all in the mind. Nature. 2002;419:117.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sachs JP, Anderson RF. Increased productivity in the subantarctic ocean during Heinrich events. Nature. 2005;434:1118–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nateri AS, Spencer-Dene B, Behrens A. Interaction of phosphorylated c-Jun with TCF4 regulates intestinal cancer development. Nature. 2005;437:281–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Singh V, Rai RK, Arora A, Sinha N, Thakur AK. Therapeutic implication of L-phenylalanine aggregation mechanism and its modulation by D-phenylalanine in phenylketonuria. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3875.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Investigating Chemical Process Incidents. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2003.

An edited book

1. Townsend T, Bates R, editors. Handbook of Teacher Education. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Thali M. The Roles of Tetraspanins in HIV-1 Replication. In: Spearman P, Freed EO, editors. HIV Interactions with Host Cell Proteins. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 85–102.

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 Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. First Extrasolar Reflected Starlight Detected [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/first-extrasolar-reflected-starlight-detected/

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. Status of Equipment, Automotive Mechanics Training Project. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1970 May. Report No.: B-168811.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kingston SE. Genome-wide analysis of divergence and introgression in towhee hybrid zones [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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

1. Walsh MW. Moody’s Credit Ratings of States To Factor In Unfunded Pensions. New York Times. 2011 Jan 27;B1.

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	Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines
Abbreviation	Trop. Dis. Travel Med. Vaccines
ISSN (online)	2055-0936
Scope