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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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
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Scholl A (2000) ANTIFERROMAGNETISM: Taking a Very Close Look at Magnetic Structures. Science (New York, NY) 288 (5472): 1762–1763.
A journal article with 2 authors
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Singh R, Cresswell P (2010) Defective cross-presentation of viral antigens in GILT-free mice. Science (New York, NY) 328 (5984): 1394–1398.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Chaudhuri J, Khuong C, Alt FW (2004) Replication protein A interacts with AID to promote deamination of somatic hypermutation targets. Nature 430 (7003): 992–998.
A journal article with 5 or more authors
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Doyle PS, Bibette J, Bancaud A, Viovy J-L (2002) Self-assembled magnetic matrices for DNA separation chips. Science (New York, NY) 295 (5563): 2237.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
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Mang T, Bobzin K, Bartels T (2010) Industrial Tribology. Weinheim, Germany, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.
An edited book
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Pokorski M (2013) Respiratory Regulation - Clinical Advances. Dordrecht, Springer Netherlands.
A chapter in an edited book
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Dong J, Chang H-D, Radbruch A (2016) Epigenetic Imprinting of Immunological Memory. In: Doerfler W, Böhm P eds Epigenetics - A Different Way of Looking at Genetics. Cham, Springer International Publishing. pp 53–67.

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
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Luntz S (2015) Our Solar System Was Shocked And Spun To Form Planets. https://www.iflscience.com/space/solar-system-shocked-and-spun-form-planets/. (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
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Government Accountability Office (2016) Federal Air Marshal Service: Actions Needed to Better Incorporate Risk in Deployment Strategy. 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
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Schoettler MR (2017) A Publish-Subscribe Framework for Embedded Systems: Simplifying the Development Process. 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
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Williams J (2017) New Ways to Woo Jaded Consumers. New York Times C5.

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 titleJournal of Tropical Life Science
AbbreviationJ. Trop. Life Sci.
ISSN (print)2087-5517
ISSN (online)2527-4376
Scope

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