How to format your references using the Tobacco Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tobacco Control. 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 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

Hoegh-Guldberg O. Ecology. Complexities of coral reef recovery. Science. 2006;311:42–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Lo M-T, Lee W-C. Detecting a weak association by testing its multiple perturbations: a data mining approach. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5081.

A journal article with 3 authors

Vergoz V, Schreurs HA, Mercer AR. Queen pheromone blocks aversive learning in young worker bees. Science. 2007;317:384–6.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Han S, Tang R, Anderson LK, et al. A cell surface receptor mediates extracellular Ca(2+) sensing in guard cells. Nature. 2003;425:196–200.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Akcoglu MA, Bartha PFA, Ha DM. Analysis in Vector Spaces. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 2009.

An edited book

Londral AR, Encarnação P, editors. Advances in Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics: Revised Selected Papers from the 2nd International Congress on Neurotechnology, Electronics and Informatics (NEUROTECHNIX 2014), October 25-26, Rome, Italy. Cham: Springer International Publishing 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Argyris N, Figueira JR, Morton A. Interactive Multicriteria Methods in Portfolio Decision Analysis. In: Salo A, Keisler J, Morton A, eds. Portfolio Decision Analysis: Improved Methods for Resource Allocation. New York, NY: Springer 2011:107–30.

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 Tobacco Control.

Blog post

Fang J. Remote-Controlled Contraceptive Implant That Lasts 16 Years. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/remote-controlled-contraceptive-implant-lasts-16-years/ (accessed 30 October 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. Technology Transfer: Japanese Firms Involved in F-15 Coproduction and Civil Aircraft Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hartley DL. Transnational jazz and blues: Aural aesthetics and African diasporic fiction. 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

Diamond J. Finding My Florida. New York Times. 2017;TR1.

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	Tobacco Control
Abbreviation	Tob. Control
ISSN (print)	0964-4563
ISSN (online)	1468-3318
Scope	Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Health(social science)