How to format your references using the Vaccine Reports citation style

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

K. Anderson, Talks in the city of light generate more heat, Nature 528 (2015) 437.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

H.A. Tissenbaum, L. Guarente, Increased dosage of a sir-2 gene extends lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans, Nature 410 (2001) 227–230.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T. Hiroi, M.E. Zolensky, C.M. Pieters, The Tagish Lake meteorite: a possible sample from a D-type asteroid, Science 293 (2001) 2234–2236.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Saxena, R.P. Chaudhary, A. Singh, S. Awasthi, S. Shukla, Plasmonic micro lens for extraordinary transmission of broadband light, Sci. Rep. 4 (2014) 5586.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Caferra, Logic for Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

P. Jorgensen, Extensions of Positive Definite Functions: Applications and Their Harmonic Analysis, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F.C. Izzo, K.J. van den Berg, H. van Keulen, B. Ferriani, E. Zendri, Modern Oil Paints – Formulations, Organic Additives and Degradation: Some Case Studies, in: K.J. van den Berg, A. Burnstock, M. de Keijzer, J. Krueger, T. Learner, T.D. Alberto, G. Heydenreich (Eds.), Issues in Contemporary Oil Paint, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2014: pp. 75–104.

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 Reports.

Blog post

[1]

A. Carpineti, VISTA Uncovers New Secrets In The Orion Nebula, IFLScience (2017).

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, Air Traffic Control: FAA Can Better Forecast and Prevent Equipment Failures, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

E.L. De la Rosa-Carrillo, On the language of Internet Memes, Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, 2015.

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]

B. Shpigel, Red Sox Muster a Threat After Porcello Stumbles, but the Indians Hold On, New York Times (2016) B8.

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 Reports
Abbreviation	Vaccine Rep.
ISSN (print)	2405-7843
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