How to format your references using the Vaccine citation style

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

[1]

Liechty J. Scientists and bankers - a new model army. Nature 2012;484:143.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Miller V, Savage M. Changes in seismic anisotropy after volcanic eruptions: evidence from Mount Ruapehu. Science 2001;293:2231–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lee H, Zones SI, Davis ME. A combustion-free methodology for synthesizing zeolites and zeolite-like materials. Nature 2003;425:385–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kuhara A, Okumura M, Kimata T, Tanizawa Y, Takano R, Kimura KD, et al. Temperature sensing by an olfactory neuron in a circuit controlling behavior of C. elegans. Science 2008;320:803–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Moorhouse M, Barry P. Bioinformatics Biocomputing and Perl. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Campbell T, Miller S, editors. Human Rights and the Moral Responsibilities of Corporate and Public Sector Organisations. vol. 20. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yao X, Wu L, Zheng WX. Fault Detection Filter Design for Markovian Jump Singular Systems. In: Wu L, Zheng WX, editors. Filtering and Control of Stochastic Jump Hybrid Systems, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 45–65.

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 Vaccine.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Quit Sugar, Go Paleo, Embrace ‘Clean Food’: The Power Of Celebrity Nutrition. IFLScience 2015.

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. National Aero-Space Plane: Key Issues Facing the Program. 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

[1]

Chanderbhan-Forde S. Asian Indian mothers’ involvement in their children’s schooling: An analysis of social and cultural capital. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 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

[1]

Wagner J. Cespedes Wanted to Stay. Mets Wanted Him to Stay. Done Deal. New York Times 2016:B9.

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	Vaccine
Abbreviation	Vaccine
ISSN (print)	0264-410X
Scope	Molecular Medicine General Immunology and Microbiology Infectious Diseases Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health General Veterinary