How to format your references using the Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines. 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

1. Burnett DS. NASA returns rocks from a comet. Science. 2006;314:1709–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Capraro V, Marcelletti A. Do good actions inspire good actions in others? Sci Rep. 2014;4:7470.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Blum R, Kafitz KW, Konnerth A. Neurotrophin-evoked depolarization requires the sodium channel Na(V)1.9. Nature. 2002;419:687–93.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sato Y, Iketani M, Kurihara Y, Yamaguchi M, Yamashita N, Nakamura F, et al. Cartilage acidic protein-1B (LOTUS), an endogenous Nogo receptor antagonist for axon tract formation. Science. 2011;333:769–73.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Worth SM. The Association Guide to Going Global. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Górka J, editor. Transforming Payment Systems in Europe. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cui X. Three-Dimensional Bioprinting in Regenerative Medicine. In: Turksen K, editor. Bioprinting in Regenerative Medicine. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 109–22.

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 Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Scientists Produce The Most Detailed Simulation Of The Universe Yet [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/most-detailed-simulation-universe-yet/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Federal Agencies’ Policies and Practices Are in Accordance With Patent and Trademark Amendments of 1980. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1985 Aug. Report No.: RCED-85-94.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kraynik MJ. Perceptions of U.S. Navy managers toward telecommuting as a management approach: A phenomenological study [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2009.

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. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: U.S. Rejects Allegations Of Spying. New York Times. 2005 May 14;A2.

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	Tropical Diseases, Travel Medicine and Vaccines
Abbreviation	Trop. Dis. Travel Med. Vaccines
ISSN (online)	2055-0936
Scope