How to format your references using the Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases (VBZ). 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	Download the output style file
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

Fauci AS. Race against Time. Nature 2005;435(7041):423–424.

A journal article with 2 authors

Göpfert MC and Robert D. Biomechanics. Turning the Key on Drosophila Audition. Nature 2001;411(6840):908.

A journal article with 3 authors

Giustino F, Cohen ML and Louie SG. Small Phonon Contribution to the Photoemission Kink in the Copper Oxide Superconductors. Nature 2008;452(7190):975–978.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Seidenbecher T, Laxmi TR, Stork O, et al. Amygdalar and Hippocampal Theta Rhythm Synchronization during Fear Memory Retrieval. Science 2003;301(5634):846–850.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Arteaga R and Hyland J. Pivot. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ; 2013.

An edited book

Yang D. The Hardy Space H1 with Non-Doubling Measures and Their Applications. (Yang D and Hu G. eds). Lecture Notes in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing: Cham; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Billington J, Vanit-Anunchai S and Gallasch GE. Parameterised Coloured Petri Net Channel Models. In: Transactions on Petri Nets and Other Models of Concurrency III. (Jensen K, Billington J, and Koutny M. eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2009; pp. 71–97.

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 Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases.

Blog post

Luntz S. Peeing While Swimming Is OK If You’re A Fish. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/peeing-while-swimming-is-ok-if-youre-a-fish/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Tax Systems Modernization: Results of Review of IRS’ Initial Expenditure Plan. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

DiPasquale VL. A Phenomenological Study of Industry Professionals’ Perceptions of Ethics in the Title Insurance Industry. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix: Phoenix, AZ; 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

Kishkovsky S. A Choreographer Vanishes In Murky Russian Mystery. New York Times 2005;E1.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Fauci, 2005).
This sentence cites two references (Fauci, 2005; Göpfert and Robert, 2001).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Göpfert and Robert, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Seidenbecher et al., 2003)

About the journal

Full journal title	Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
ISSN (print)	1530-3667
ISSN (online)	1557-7759
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