How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases. 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]

Rabeharisoa V. Genome-sequencing anniversary. Socializing genetic diseases. Science 2011;331:1026–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Nedeva M, Stampfer M. Science policy. From “science in Europe” to “European science.” Science 2012;336:982–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Singh SK, Yamashita A, Gouaux E. Antidepressant binding site in a bacterial homologue of neurotransmitter transporters. Nature 2007;448:952–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Liu C, Sadik MM, Mauk MG, Edelstein PH, Bushman FD, Gross R, et al. Nuclemeter: a reaction-diffusion based method for quantifying nucleic acids undergoing enzymatic amplification. Sci Rep 2014;4:7335.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Alexander M, Walkenbach J. Excel® Dashboards & Reports. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley Publishing, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Talley RC, Crews JE, editors. Multiple Dimensions of Caregiving and Disability: Research, Practice, Policy. New York, NY: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Valcke M. “Evidence-Based Teaching, Evidence-Based Teacher Education” (Quality of Teachers and Quality of Teacher Education). In: Zhu X, Zeichner K, editors. Preparing Teachers for the 21st Century, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 53–66.

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 Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. The Jet Flows Of Jupiter Recreated In The Lab For The First Time. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/the-jet-flows-of-jupiter-recreated-in-the-lab-for-the-first-time/ (accessed October 30, 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. Information Technology Investment: Agencies Can Improve Performance, Reduce Costs, and Minimize Risks. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Curiel AR. A re-examination of the Meyers and Volbrecht motor equation for the identification of suspect effort. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2013.

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]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Miners’ Hunger Strike. New York Times 2004:A12.

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	Journal of Clinical Tuberculosis and Other Mycobacterial Diseases
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Tuberc. Other Mycobact. Dis.
ISSN (print)	2405-5794
Scope