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]

Carlsson A. A paradigm shift in brain research. Science 2001;294:1021–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hogue TS, Pincetl S. WATER CONSERVATION. Are you watering your lawn? Science 2015;348:1319–20.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Bailor MH, Sun X, Al-Hashimi HM. Topology links RNA secondary structure with global conformation, dynamics, and adaptation. Science 2010;327:202–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Labrador M, Mongelard F, Plata-Rengifo P, Baxter EM, Corces VG, Gerasimova TI. Protein encoding by both DNA strands. Nature 2001;409:1000.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mack I. Energy Trading and Risk Management. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Thornhill R. The Parasite-Stress Theory of Values and Sociality: Infectious Disease, History and Human Values Worldwide. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Eom J-H, Kim S, Kim S-H, Zhang B-T. A Tree Kernel-Based Method for Protein-Protein Interaction Mining from Biomedical Literature. In: Bremer EG, Hakenberg J, Han E-H (sam), Berrar D, Dubitzky W, editors. Knowledge Discovery in Life Science Literature: PAKDD 2006 International Workshop, KDLL 2006, Singapore, April 9, 2006. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006, p. 42–52.

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

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Andrews R. 48 New Volcanoes Have Been Found On Jupiter’s Moon Io. IFLScience 2016.

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. Aviation Fees: Review of Air Carriers’ Year 2000 Passenger and Property Screening Costs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Henry AG. Plant foods and the dietary ecology of Neandertals and modern humans. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2010.

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]

Vecsey G. Rematch 45 Years In the Making. New York Times 2010:B11.

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