How to format your references using the Current Tropical Medicine Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Tropical Medicine 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 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. Schulz M. Materials science. Speeding up artificial muscles. Science. 2012;338:893–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Pitt JN, Ferré-D’Amaré AR. Rapid construction of empirical RNA fitness landscapes. Science. 2010;330:376–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lappe M, Awater H, Krekelberg B. Postsaccadic visual references generate presaccadic compression of space. Nature. 2000;403:892–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Liu K, Lai TYY, Chiang SWY, Chan VCK, Young AL, Tam POS, et al. Gender specific association of a complement component 3 polymorphism with polypoidal choroidal vasculopathy. Sci Rep. 2014;4:7018.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Morana J. Sustainable Supply Chain Management. Hoboken, NJ USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

1. Armada MA. Climbing and Walking Robots: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference CLAWAR 2004. González Santos P de, editor. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Yang M, Yu X. Market Barriers to Energy Efficiency. In: Yu X, editor. Energy Efficiency: Benefits for Environment and Society. London: Springer; 2015. p. 33–42.

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 Current Tropical Medicine Reports.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Samsung Unveils “See-Through” Safety Trucks [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/samsung-unveils-see-through-safety-trucks/

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. Public Transit: Information on Job Access and Reverse Commute Activities after 2012 Statutory Changes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017 May. Report No.: GAO-17-483.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mills AD. Strategic school solutions: A capacity building framework for leaders accelerating 21st century teaching and learning [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 2016.

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. GEORGE GENE GUSTINES; Compiled by RACHEL LEE HARRIS. Comic Strips Think Pink. New York Times. 2010 Oct 4;C3.

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	Current Tropical Medicine Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Trop. Med. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-3045
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