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

East R (2013) Microbiome: Soil science comes to life. Nature 501 (7468): S18-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Inoue A, Zhang Y (2011) Replication-dependent loss of 5-hydroxymethylcytosine in mouse preimplantation embryos. Science (New York, NY) 334 (6053): 194.

A journal article with 3 authors

Whitcome KK, Shapiro LJ, Lieberman DE (2007) Fetal load and the evolution of lumbar lordosis in bipedal hominins. Nature 450 (7172): 1075–1078.

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Thewissen JGM, Cooper LN, Clementz MT et al. (2007) Whales originated from aquatic artiodactyls in the Eocene epoch of India. Nature 450 (7173): 1190–1194.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Thiessen H (1996) Measuring the Real World. West Sussex, England, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.,.

An edited book

Rachůnková I (2015) State-Dependent Impulses: Boundary Value Problems on Compact Interval. 1st ed. 2015. Paris, Atlantis Press.

A chapter in an edited book

Romanko O, Ghaffari-Hadigheh A, Terlaky T (2012) Multiobjective Optimization via Parametric Optimization: Models, Algorithms, and Applications. In: Terlaky T, Curtis FE eds Modeling and Optimization: Theory and Applications: Selected Contributions from the MOPTA 2010 Conference. New York, NY, Springer. pp 77–119.

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

Hale T (2016) The Best Of The 2016 National Geographic Travel Photographer Of The Year So Far. (2016)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 (2001) Air Traffic Control: Role of FAA’s Modernization Program in Reducing Delays and Congestion. 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

Renteria Y (2017) Respite services for post-adoption families transitioning from the child welfare system: A grant proposal. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Crow K (2000) Using Tall Yellow Globes To Find Elusive Yellow Cabs. New York Times 148.

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