How to format your references using the Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases. 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Padma, T.V., 2010. Developing solutions. Nature 466, S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

Helffrich, G.R., Wood, B.J., 2001. The Earth’s mantle. Nature 412, 501–507.

A journal article with 3 authors

Li, C., Zhang, T., Goldman, D.I., 2013. A terradynamics of legged locomotion on granular media. Science 339, 1408–1412.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Miller, G.H., Fogel, M.L., Magee, J.W., Gagan, M.K., Clarke, S.J., Johnson, B.J., 2005. Ecosystem collapse in Pleistocene Australia and a human role in megafaunal extinction. Science 309, 287–290.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kirsh, S.J., 2009. Media and Youth. Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

Compans, R.W., Cooper, M.D., Honjo, T., Koprowski, H., Melchers, F., Oldstone, M.B.A., Olsnes, S., Potter, M., Vogt, P.K., Wagner, H., Sullivan, D.J., Krishna, S. (Eds.), 2005. Malaria: Drugs, Disease and Post-genomic Biology, Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Zeng, Z., Xu, X., Chen, D., 2015. Effects of Traditional Chinese Medicine on DCs Under Tumor Microenvironment, in: Xu, X., Chen, D. (Eds.), Dendritic Cells: Biophysics, Tumor Microenvironment and Chinese Traditional Medicine, SpringerBriefs in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp. 55–63.

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 Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases.

Blog post

Davis, J., 2016. Comprehensive Review Of Statins Finds The Benefits Far Outweigh The Risks [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1997. FASAB Volume 1 Original Statements: Statements of Federal Financial Accounting Concepts and Standards (No. AIMD-21.1.1). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Terrell, S., 2010. How Global Leaders Develop: A Phenomenological Study of Global Leadership Development (Doctoral dissertation). George Washington University, Washington, DC.

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

Wagner, J., 2017. Baseball; Rainout Gives Injured Mets More Rest. New York Times B14.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Padma, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Helffrich and Wood, 2001; Padma, 2010).

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

Two authors: (Helffrich and Wood, 2001)
Three or more authors: (Miller et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases
Abbreviation	Ticks Tick Borne Dis.
ISSN (print)	1877-959X
Scope	Insect Science Microbiology Parasitology Infectious Diseases