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. Guston DH. Innovation policy: not just a jumbo shrimp. Nature. 2008;454:940–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sprangers R, Kay LE. Quantitative dynamics and binding studies of the 20S proteasome by NMR. Nature. 2007;445:618–22.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kobayashi S, Goto-Yamamoto N, Hirochika H. Retrotransposon-induced mutations in grape skin color. Science. 2004;304:982.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wu G, Takahashi M, Arai K, Inaba H, Minoshima K. Extremely high-accuracy correction of air refractive index using two-colour optical frequency combs. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1894.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sahalos JN. Orthogonal Methods for Array Synthesis. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Saba L, Raz E, editors. Neurovascular Imaging: From Basics to Advanced Concepts. New York, NY: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Isabelle AD, Valle NZ. Technology. In: Valle NZ, editor. Inspiring STEM Minds: Biographies and Activities for Elementary Classrooms. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2016. p. 87–102.

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. Amateur Fossil Hunter Discovered Complete, 7ft Skeleton Of Ancient Marine Reptile [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/complete-7ft-skeleton-ancient-marine-reptile-discovered-uk-beach/

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. Freight Railroads: Preliminary Observations on Rates, Competition, and Capacity Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Jun. Report No.: GAO-06-898T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Kannanthanathu AF. Wavelet Transform and Ensemble Logistic Regression for Driver Drowsiness Detection [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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. Greenhouse L. justices reject campaign limits in vermont case. New York Times. 2006 Jun 27;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	Current Tropical Medicine Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Trop. Med. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-3045
Scope

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