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]

Pockley P. Clean-up strategy at Australian nuclear site called into question. Nature 2000;404(6780):797.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Engdahl A, Nelander B. The vibrational spectrum of H2O3. Science 2002;295(5554):482–483.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Chakraborty P, Gioia G, Kieffer SW. Volcanic mesocyclones. Nature 2009;458(7237):497–500.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zhang Y, Blattman JN, Kennedy NJ, Duong J, Nguyen T, Wang Y, et al. Regulation of innate and adaptive immune responses by MAP kinase phosphatase 5. Nature 2004;430(7001):793–797.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rémond Y, Ahzi S, Baniassadi M, Garmestani H. Applied RVE Reconstruction and Homogenization of Heterogeneous Materials. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Xia F. MAC Protocols for Cyber-Physical Systems. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gilbert HD, Pack DJ, McGuirk JS. A Comparative Study of Target Localization Methods for Large GDOP. In: Grundel D, Murphey R, Pardalos P, Prokopyev O, editors. Cooperative Systems: Control and Optimization. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: 67–78.

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]

Andrews R. Atomically-Thin, Powerful Graphene Night Vision Lenses Resemble ‘Predator’ Alien Technology. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/atomically-thin-powerful-graphene-night-vision-lenses-resemble-predator-alien-technology/ (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. Telecommunications: The Effect of Competition From Satellite Providers on Cable Rates. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Verret JE. Property Tax Limitations, School District Revenues, and Equity: Analyses of Pennsylvania’s Act One. 2019.

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]

Zimmerman E. No Country For Old Men. New York Times. 2013;:MM30.

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)