How to format your references using the Tropical Doctor citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tropical Doctor. 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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Weaver AJ. Climate change. Toward the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. Science 2011; 332: 795–796.
A journal article with 2 authors
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May M, Brody H. Nature index 2015 Asia-Pacific. Nature 2015; 519: S49.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Song B-S, Noda S, Asano T. Photonic devices based on in-plane hetero photonic crystals. Science 2003; 300: 1537.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
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Connor CM, Morrison FJ, Fishman BJ, et al. The early years. Algorithm-guided individualized reading instruction. Science 2007; 315: 464–465.

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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Arifin SMN, Madey GR, Collins FH. Spatial Agent-Based Simulation Modeling in Public Health. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 2016.
An edited book
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Pérez Martín J, Di Pietro A (eds). Morphogenesis and Pathogenicity in Fungi. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012.
A chapter in an edited book
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Potter GB, Gibbs JC, Robbins M, et al. Equipping a Responsible Adult Culture Through Equipment Meetings. In: Gibbs JC, Robbins M, Langdon PE (eds) A Comprehensive Cognitive Behavioral Program for Offenders: Responsible Adult Culture. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2015, pp. 131–140.

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 Tropical Doctor.

Blog post
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Fang J. Here’s How Scarce Wild Prey Must Be Before Big Cats Kill Livestock. IFLScience.

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. Reports Issued in June 1989. 139191, Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1 June 1989.

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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Thompson K. An Introduction to the Cox Proportional Hazards Model and Its Applications to Survival Analysis. Doctoral Dissertation, Southern Illinois University, 2014.

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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Kishkovsky S. Russian Writer, Facing Charges, Warns Free Expression Is at Risk. New York Times, 16 July 2002, p. A7.

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 titleTropical Doctor
AbbreviationTrop. Doct.
ISSN (print)0049-4755
ISSN (online)1758-1133
ScopeInfectious Diseases
Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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