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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease (APJTD). 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]

Zeki S. Essays on science and society. Artistic creativity and the brain. Science 2001;293(5527):51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ellis J, Mavromatos NE. Does gravity correct gauge couplings? Nature 2011;479(7374):E5-6; discussion E6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Stunnenberg HG, Vermeulen M, Atlasi Y. Developmental biology. A Me6Age for pluripotency. Science 2015;347(6222):614–615.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Malaney P, Pathak RR, Xue B, Uversky VN, Davé V. Intrinsic disorder in PTEN and its interactome confers structural plasticity and functional versatility. Sci Rep 2013;3:2035.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Raynaud H, Arrow KJ. Managerial Logic. John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Ritsner M (ed.). Handbook of Schizophrenia Spectrum Disorders, Volume II: Phenotypic and Endophenotypic Presentations. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Milovanovic L. Medications Used in Interventional Radiology. In: Athreya S, editor. Demystifying Interventional Radiology: A Guide for Medical Students. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016: 21–32.

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 Disease.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. China’s Smog Kills More Than A Million Each Year – But There’s A Clearer Road Ahead. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-s-smog-kills-more-million-each-year-there-s-clearer-road-ahead/ (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. Technology Transfers: Benefits of Cooperative R&D Agreements. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1994.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Flores E. An exploratory study on widows’ experiences following the loss of their spouse. 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]

Fernandez M, Fausset R. A Limitless City, Now Envisioning New Limitations. New York Times. 2017;:A1.

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 Disease
Abbreviation	Asian Pac. J. Trop. Dis.
ISSN (print)	2222-1808
Scope	Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)