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. Rubery E. A year of opportunity. Nature. 2001;410:867–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Minetti AE, Ardigó LP. Halteres used in ancient Olympic long jump. Nature. 2002;420:141–2.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kutnjak Z, Petzelt J, Blinc R. The giant electromechanical response in ferroelectric relaxors as a critical phenomenon. Nature. 2006;441:956–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Hsu GW, Ober M, Carell T, Beese LS. Error-prone replication of oxidatively damaged DNA by a high-fidelity DNA polymerase. Nature. 2004;431:217–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Radwanska M, Stankiewicz A, Wosatko A, Pamin J. Plate and Shell Structures. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

1. García Gómez-Tejedor G, Fuss MC, editors. Radiation Damage in Biomolecular Systems. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Munoz RT, Fox MD. Legal Aspects of Brain Death and Organ Donorship. In: Novitzky D, Cooper DKC, editors. The Brain-Dead Organ Donor: Pathophysiology and Management. New York, NY: Springer; 2013. p. 21–35.

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. Andrew E. Cyber Security Experts Hacked Into A MOVING CAR And Took Control [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/cyber-security-experts-hacked-moving-car-and-took-control/

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. Resources, Community, and Economic Development Information Systems Issue Area--Active Assignments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Jan. Report No.: AA-97-30(1).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Hernandez K. Life skills education for at-risk youth at Soledad Enrichment Action Charter High School: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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. Greenhouse L. Justices Decline to Take Up New Eminent Domain Case. New York Times. 2007 Jan 17;A15.

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

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