How to format your references using the Transboundary and Emerging Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Transboundary and Emerging 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	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

Schiermeier, Q., 2004: Renaissance in Spain. Nature 428, 448–449.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kim-Muller, J.Y., and D. Accili, 2011: Cell biology. Selective insulin sensitizers. Science 331, 1529–1531.

A journal article with 3 authors

Lin, D.Y.-W., S. Huang, and J. Chen, 2015: Crystal structures of a polypeptide processing and secretion transporter. Nature 523, 425–430.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Bernard, P., J.F. Maure, J.F. Partridge, S. Genier, J.P. Javerzat, and R.C. Allshire, 2001: Requirement of heterochromatin for cohesion at centromeres. Science 294, 2539–2542.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Coombs, W.T., and S.J. Holladay, 2011: Managing Corporate Social Responsibility. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell.

An edited book

Calude, C.S., J.F. Costa, R. Freund, M. Oswald, and G. Rozenberg (Eds.), 2008: Unconventional Computing: 7th International Conference, UC 2008 Vienna, Austria, August 25-28, 2008. Proceedings. Vol. 5204. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Chowdhury, R., 2016: Russian Medical Diplomacy in Ethiopia, 1896–1913, pp. 115–145. In: Winterbottom, Anna, and Facil Tesfaye (eds), Histories of Medicine and Healing in the Indian Ocean World: The Modern Period. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US.

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 Transboundary and Emerging Diseases.

Blog post

Andrew, E., 2015 (5. November): IFLScience, Can Trees Really Change Sex? [Online] Available at (accessed October 30, 2018). IFLScience.

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, 1993: U.S. Trade and Development Agency: Limitations Exist in Its Ability to Help Generate U.S. Exports (No. GGD-94-9). 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

Shaker, G., 2008: Off the track: The full-time nontenure -track faculty experience in English (Doctoral dissertation). PhD thesis, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN.

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

Kelly, D., 1996 (3. March): Books in Brief: FICTION. p. 718, New York Times.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Schiermeier, 2004).
This sentence cites two references (Schiermeier, 2004; Kim-Muller and Accili, 2011).

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

Two authors: (Kim-Muller and Accili, 2011)
Three or more authors: (Bernard et al., 2001)

About the journal

Full journal title	Transboundary and Emerging Diseases
Abbreviation	Transbound. Emerg. Dis.
ISSN (print)	1865-1674
ISSN (online)	1865-1682
Scope	General Immunology and Microbiology General Medicine General Veterinary