How to format your references using the Tuberculosis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tuberculosis. 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	Download the output style file
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

[1]

Brockhurst MA. Evolution. Sex, death, and the Red Queen. Science 2011;333:166–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kelley LA, Endler JA. Illusions promote mating success in great bowerbirds. Science 2012;335:335–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kalas P, Liu MC, Matthews BC. Discovery of a large dust disk around the nearby star AU Microscopii. Science 2004;303:1990–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Lee A-H, Scapa EF, Cohen DE, Glimcher LH. Regulation of hepatic lipogenesis by the transcription factor XBP1. Science 2008;320:1492–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Rees PA. An Introduction to Zoo Biology and Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Pagel JF, Pandi-Perumal SR, editors. Primary Care Sleep Medicine: A Practical Guide. 2nd ed. 2014. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Parra A, Mendes JR, Valero P, Villavicencio Ubillús M. Mathematics Education in Multilingual Contexts for the Indigenous Population in Latin America. In: Barwell R, Clarkson P, Halai A, Kazima M, Moschkovich J, Planas N, et al., editors. Mathematics Education and Language Diversity: The 21st ICMI Study, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 67–84.

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 Tuberculosis.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. GM Apples That Don’t Turn Brown Approved For Growing In US. IFLScience 2015.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Farmers Home Administration: Half-Billion Dollar ADP Modernization Lacks Adequate Planning and Oversight. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Manley Lima MC. Commuter Students’ Social Integration: The Relationship Between Involvement in Extracurricular Activities and Sense of Belonging. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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

[1]

Nagourney A, Lovett I, Pérez-Peña R. Shooting Rampage Sows Terror in California. New York Times 2015:A1.

In-text citations

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

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	Tuberculosis
Abbreviation	Tuberculosis (Edinb.)
ISSN (print)	1472-9792
Scope	Immunology Microbiology Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)