How to format your references using the Journal of Tropical Life Science citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Tropical Life Science. 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

Naeem S (2008) Ecology. Green with complexity. Science (New York, NY) 319 (5865): 913–914.

A journal article with 2 authors

Palmer MA, Febria CM (2012) Ecology. The heartbeat of ecosystems. Science (New York, NY) 336 (6087): 1393–1394.

A journal article with 3 authors

Baarlink C, Wang H, Grosse R (2013) Nuclear actin network assembly by formins regulates the SRF coactivator MAL. Science (New York, NY) 340 (6134): 864–867.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Hart AW, Baeza N, Apelqvist A, Edlund H (2000) Attenuation of FGF signalling in mouse beta-cells leads to diabetes. Nature 408 (6814): 864–868.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laykin E (2013) Investigative Computer Forensics. Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Correa JR, Hevia A, Kiwi M (2006) LATIN 2006: Theoretical Informatics: 7th Latin American Symposium, Valdivia, Chile, March 20-24, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Oliveira ACM, Lorena LAN (2007) Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms and Clustering Search. In: Abraham A, Grosan C, Ishibuchi H eds Hybrid Evolutionary Algorithms. Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer. pp 77–99.

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 Tropical Life Science.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) NASA Discovers Liquid Salty Water Flowing On Mars. https://www.iflscience.com/space/evidence-salty-water-flowing-mars/. (2015)Accessed: October 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

Government Accountability Office (1977) Concerted Effort Needed to Improve Indian Education. Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Barger B (2014) A Quantitative Study of Educational Poverty, School Location, and Student Achievement Measured by the Program for International Student Assessment (PISA). Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University

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

Paulson M (2017) Michael Friedman, Co-Creator of ‘Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,’ Dies at 41. New York Times B7.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2, 4].
This sentence cites four references [2, 4, 6, 8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Tropical Life Science
Abbreviation	J. Trop. Life Sci.
ISSN (print)	2087-5517
ISSN (online)	2527-4376
Scope