How to format your references using the Vaccine Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vaccine Reports. 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]

M. Ruse, Perceptions in science. Is evolution a secular religion?, Science 299 (2003) 1523–1524.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

M. Zhang, R. Schekman, Cell biology. Unconventional secretion, unconventional solutions, Science 340 (2013) 559–561.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

R.F. Oliveira, L.A. Carneiro, A.V.M. Canário, Behavioural endocrinology: no hormonal response in tied fights, Nature 437 (2005) 207–208.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

C.M. Koebel, W. Vermi, J.B. Swann, N. Zerafa, S.J. Rodig, L.J. Old, M.J. Smyth, R.D. Schreiber, Adaptive immunity maintains occult cancer in an equilibrium state, Nature 450 (2007) 903–907.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Baines, J. Ferraro, P. Rogers, The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Eighteenth-Century Writers and Writing 1660 - 1789, Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

H. Giese, B. König, eds., Graph Transformation: 7th International Conference, ICGT 2014, Held as Part of STAF 2014, York, UK, July 22-24, 2014. Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

M.A. Gonzalez, Badlands of the Northern Great Plains: Hell with the Fires Out, in: P. Migon (Ed.), Geomorphological Landscapes of the World, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2010: pp. 29–38.

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 Vaccine Reports.

Blog post

[1]

T. Hale, Scientists Hope To Bring Giant Galapagos Tortoise Back From Extinction, IFLScience (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-hope-to-bring-giant-galapagos-tortoise-back-from-extinction/ (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, Contract Award Protest, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1973.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

H.D. Ghafoori, Working with Muslim children and families: A training program for child welfare social workers, Doctoral dissertation, 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]

E. St. John Kelly, PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD, New York Times (1994) 1412.

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	Vaccine Reports
Abbreviation	Vaccine Rep.
ISSN (print)	2405-7843
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