How to format your references using the Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease. 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
[1]
Travesset A. Materials science. Self-assembly enters the design era. Science 2011;334:183–4.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
Kondo S, Miura T. Reaction-diffusion model as a framework for understanding biological pattern formation. Science 2010;329:1616–20.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
Andrew TL, Tsai H-Y, Menon R. Confining light to deep subwavelength dimensions to enable optical nanopatterning. Science 2009;324:917–21.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
[1]
Yoon J, Jo S, Chun IS, Jung I, Kim H-S, Meitl M, et al. GaAs photovoltaics and optoelectronics using releasable multilayer epitaxial assemblies. Nature 2010;465:329–33.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
Phelan J. Reading the American Novel 1920-2010. Oxford, UK: John Wiley & Sons Ltd; 2013.
An edited book
[1]
Ang MH, Khatib O, editors. Experimental Robotics IX: The 9th International Symposium on Experimental Robotics. vol. 21. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Cohen A, Porath M, Clarke A, Bai H, Leggo C, Meyer K. Becoming a Daoist Educator: The Pedagogy of Wu-Wei. In: Cohen A, Porath M, Clarke A, Bai H, Leggo C, Meyer K, editors. Speaking of Teaching…: Inclinations, Inspirations, and Innerworkings, Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2012, p. 19–33.

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 Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease.

Blog post
[1]
Fang J. Pigeons Wearing Eye Patches Must Learn New Routes Home. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pigeons-wearing-eye-patches-find-new-routes-home/ (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. Railroad Safety: DOT Should Better Manage Its Hazardous Materials Inspection Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
[1]
Thigpen LC. Building a concrete foundation: A mixed-method study of teaching styles and the use of concrete, representational, and abstract mathematics instruction. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 2012.

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]
Greenhouse L. A Habeas Corpus Appeal Veers to Capital Issues. New York Times 2007:A18.

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 titleTravel Medicine and Infectious Disease
AbbreviationTravel Med. Infect. Dis.
ISSN (print)1477-8939
ScopeInfectious Diseases
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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