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. Servick K. Top heart lab comes under fire. Science. 2014;345:254.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Scott IC, Stainier DYR. Development. Fishing out a new heart. Science. 2002;298:2141–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Finkelstein IJ, Visnapuu M-L, Greene EC. Single-molecule imaging reveals mechanisms of protein disruption by a DNA translocase. Nature. 2010;468:983–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Yang H, Luo G, Karnchanaphanurach P, Louie T-M, Rech I, Cova S, et al. Protein conformational dynamics probed by single-molecule electron transfer. Science. 2003;302:262–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Nyce DS. Position Sensors. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

1. Clément G, Bukley A, editors. Artificial Gravity. New York, NY: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Jensen MJ, Anstead N. Campaigns and Social Media Communications: A Look at Digital Campaigning in the 2010 U.K. General Election. In: Grofman B, Trechsel AH, Franklin M, editors. The Internet and Democracy in Global Perspective: Voters, Candidates, Parties, and Social Movements. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 57–81.

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. Taub B. Having An Orgasm Is Like Going Into A Trance. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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. Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Readiness Improving But Much Work Remains to Ensure Delivery of Critical Services. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Apr. Report No.: T-AIMD-99-149.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Henderson R. The effect of Interactive Metronome training on sports confidence and putting performance [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Lundberg GD. The N.F.L.’s Collision With the Future. New York Times. 2016 Feb 4;A27.

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