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. Nosonovsky M. Materials science: slippery when wetted. Nature. 2011;477:412–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Zhou Z, Bai Y. Structural biology: analysis of protein-folding cooperativity. Nature. 2007;445:E16-7; discussion E17-8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Dethlefsen L, McFall-Ngai M, Relman DA. An ecological and evolutionary perspective on human-microbe mutualism and disease. Nature. 2007;449:811–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bell JF 3rd, Lemmon MT, Duxbury TC, Hubbard MYH, Wolff MJ, Squyres SW, et al. Solar eclipses of Phobos and Deimos observed from the surface of Mars. Nature. 2005;436:55–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Bottomley GE. Channel Equalization for Wireless Communications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Davis CA, Monteiro AMV, editors. Advances in Geoinformatics: VIII Brazilian Symposium on GeoInformatics, GEOINFO 2006, Campos do Jordão (SP), Brazil, November 19–22, 2006. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Burns R. Clinical Experience and Diseases of the Woolly Monkey (Lagothrix lagothricha) at the Louisville Zoo. In: Defler TR, Stevenson PR, editors. The Woolly Monkey: Behavior, Ecology, Systematics, and Captive Research. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 75–81.

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. How We Found Out There Are Three Trillion Trees On Earth [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-we-found-out-there-are-three-trillion-trees-earth/

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. Waste From School Lunches. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 May. Report No.: RCED-96-128R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Loretz N. Human trafficking: Identification, education, and awareness: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2009.

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. Saslow L. Supervisor for the Short Term in Brookhaven. New York Times. 2009 Apr 5;LI2.

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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