How to format your references using the Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine (APJTB). 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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]

Binder P-M. Physics. Reflections on a wall of light. Science 2008;322(5906):1334–1335.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Aychek T, Jung S. Immunology. The axis of tolerance. Science 2014;343(6178):1439–1440.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Showalter MR, Hedman MM, Burns JA. The impact of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 sends ripples through the rings of Jupiter. Science 2011;332(6030):711–713.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Gore AV, Maegawa S, Cheong A, Gilligan PC, Weinberg ES, Sampath K. The zebrafish dorsal axis is apparent at the four-cell stage. Nature 2005;438(7070):1030–1035.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sierra MA, de la Torre MC, Cossío FP. More Dead Ends and Detours. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, Germany, 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Breslin JG. The Social Semantic Web. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Rowan L. Ethical Researcher or Vampiric Consumer? In: Midgley W, Davies A, Oliver ME, Danaher PA, editors. Echoes: Ethics and Issues of Voice in Education Research. SensePublishers: Rotterdam, 2014: 35–51.

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 Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Researchers Have Found The First Ever Fossilized Dinosaur Brain. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/researchers-first-ever-fossilized-dinosaur-brain/ (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. Disadvantaged Business Enterprise Program. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

PerLee-Lange DL. An introduction to the juvenile dependency court process and the child welfare system: A curriculum for parents. 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]

Neuman W. Mayor Ousted In Colombia After Claims Of Bungling. New York Times. 2013;:A6.

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	Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Biomedicine
Abbreviation	Asian Pac. J. Trop. Biomed.
ISSN (print)	2221-1691
Scope	Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology (miscellaneous)