How to format your references using the The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD). 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

Rempe G. Quantum optics. A photon steers a photon with an atom. Science 2014; 345(6199): 871.

A journal article with 2 authors

Velicer G J, Yu Y-T N. Evolution of novel cooperative swarming in the bacterium Myxococcus xanthus. Nature 2003; 425(6953): 75–78.

A journal article with 3 authors

Song T-R A, Helmberger D V, Grand S P. Low-velocity zone atop the 410-km seismic discontinuity in the northwestern United States. Nature 2004; 427(6974): 530–533.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ling X, Zhou X, Shu W, Luo H, Wen S. Realization of tunable photonic spin Hall effect by tailoring the Pancharatnam-berry phase. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 5557.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morris A S. ISO 14000 Environmental Management Standards. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2006.

An edited book

Merbach W. The Long-Term Fertilization Trials in Halle (Saale), Germany: A Tool for Sustainable and Environmentally Compatible Land Management — Contributions of Plant Nutrition Science in Halle 13. 2nd revised Edition. Wiesbaden: DUV, 2007. VIII, 191 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

White M S, Xenopoulos M A, Hogsden K, Metcalfe R A, Dillon P J. Natural lake level fluctuation and associated concordance with water quality and aquatic communities within small lakes of the laurentian great lakes region. In: Wantzen K M, Rothhaupt K-O, Mörtl M, Cantonati M, -Tóth L G, Fischer P, eds. Ecological Effects of Water-Level Fluctuations in Lakes. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2008: pp 21–31.

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 The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

Blog post

Andrew E. Won’t Somebody Think Of The Children? Five Reasons Why Drug Panics Are Counterproductive. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/won-t-somebody-think-children-five-reasons-why-drug-panics-are-counterproductive/ (2015, 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

Government Accountability Office. ADP Budget: Department of the Air Force’s Information Technology Systems Obligations. IMTEC-89-49FSWashington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, May 22, 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Stein E. Oncology Summer Camp Attendance and Self-Esteem and Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors Among Pediatric Cancer Patients and Siblings. Doctoral DissertationPepperdine University, 2017.

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

Saslow L. Insider Named President of Farmingdale College. New York Times, January 21, 2007, LI2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
ISSN (print)	1027-3719
ISSN (online)	1815-7920
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