How to format your references using the Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases (VBZ). 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

Davidson EH. Emerging Properties of Animal Gene Regulatory Networks. Nature 2010;468(7326):911–920.

A journal article with 2 authors

Jung GY and Stephanopoulos G. A Functional Protein Chip for Pathway Optimization and in Vitro Metabolic Engineering. Science 2004;304(5669):428–431.

A journal article with 3 authors

Rossi DJ, Oshima T and Attwell D. Glutamate Release in Severe Brain Ischaemia Is Mainly by Reversed Uptake. Nature 2000;403(6767):316–321.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Lai CW, Zoch J, Gossard AC, et al. Phase Diagram of Degenerate Exciton Systems. Science 2004;303(5657):503–506.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Jaitly R. Practical Operational Due Diligence on Hedge Funds. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK; 2016.

An edited book

Sidhu AS and Dhillon SK, (eds). Advances in Biomedical Infrastructure 2013: Proceedings of International Symposium on Biomedical Data Infrastructure (BDI 2013). Studies in Computational Intelligence. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

Bozzelli L. Complexity Results on Branching-Time Pushdown Model Checking. In: Verification, Model Checking, and Abstract Interpretation: 7th International Conference, VMCAI 2006, Charleston, SC, USA, January 8-10, 2006. Proceedings. (Emerson EA and Namjoshi KS. eds). Lecture Notes in Computer Science Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2005; pp. 65–79.

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 Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases.

Blog post

Evans K. Recently Discovered “Casper” The Octopod Already At Risk From Deep-Sea Mining. IFLScience; 2016. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/recently-discovered-casper-the-octopod-already-at-risk-from-deepsea-mining/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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

Government Accountability Office. Air Traffic Control: Status of FAA’s Effort to Modernize the System. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Zhang X. Electroweak Interactions and the Delta Resonance in a Chiral Effective Field Theory for Nuclei. Doctoral dissertation. Indiana University: Bloomington, IN; 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

Bennhold K and de la MERCED MJ. Uber Leader, in Visit to London, Appeals to Regain Operating License. New York Times 2017;B6.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Davidson, 2010).
This sentence cites two references (Davidson, 2010; Jung and Stephanopoulos, 2004).

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

Two authors: (Jung and Stephanopoulos, 2004)
Three or more authors: (Lai et al., 2004)

About the journal

Full journal title	Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases
ISSN (print)	1530-3667
ISSN (online)	1557-7759
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