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. Midgley PA. Materials science. Electronic bonding revealed by electron diffraction. Science. 2011;331:1528–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Linkerhand M, Gros C. Generating functionals for autonomous latching dynamics in attractor relict networks. Sci Rep. 2013;3:2042.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Linnartz H, Verdes D, Maier JP. Rotationally resolved infrared spectrum of the charge transfer complex [Ar-N2]+. Science. 2002;297:1166–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Tang J, Xu Y, McKellar ARW, Jäger W. Quantum solvation of carbonyl sulfide with helium atoms. Science. 2002;297:2030–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Stewart R. Plautus and Roman Slavery. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2012.

An edited book

1. Donelli G, editor. Advances in Microbiology, Infectious Diseases and Public Health: Volume 1. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Fürstenau B, OldenBürger H-A, Trojahner I. Prior Knowledge of Potential Entrepreneurs. In: Weber S, Oser FK, Achtenhagen F, Fretschner M, Trost S, editors. Becoming an Entrepreneur. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2014. p. 77–89.

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. Andrews R. An “Emotional AI” Is Being Developed By A Team Of Russian Researchers [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/emotional-ai-developed-team-russian-researchers/

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. NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope: Knowledge-Based Acquisition Approach Key to Addressing Program Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Jul. Report No.: GAO-06-634.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Maafi N. Assessment of Volatile Metabolites for In Situ Detection of Fungal Decay of Wood [Doctoral dissertation]. [Mississippi State, MS]: Mississippi State University; 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. Walsh MW. How Free Electricity Helped Dig $9 Billion Hole in Puerto Rico. New York Times. 2016 Feb 2;A1.

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