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]

Heckel DG. Ecology. Insecticide resistance after Silent spring. Science 2012;337:1612–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Leontis NB, Westhof E. Chemistry. Self-assembled RNA nanostructures. Science 2014;345:732–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Gestwicki JE, Crabtree GR, Graef IA. Harnessing chaperones to generate small-molecule inhibitors of amyloid beta aggregation. Science 2004;306:865–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Einsle O, Tezcan FA, Andrade SLA, Schmid B, Yoshida M, Howard JB, et al. Nitrogenase MoFe-protein at 1.16 A resolution: a central ligand in the FeMo-cofactor. Science 2002;297:1696–700.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Idelberger K. The World of Footbridges. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Chaudhuri KR. Handbook of Non-Motor Symptoms in Parkinson’s Disease. Heidelberg: Springer Healthcare UK; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Offenberg AK. The Riddle of the Baskets of 1726. In: Baasten MFJ, Munk R, editors. Studies in Hebrew Literature and Jewish Culture: Presented to Albert van der Heide on the Occasion of his Sixty-Fifth Birthday, Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2007, p. 57–80.

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]

Fang J. New Species of Extinct River Dolphin Discovered in Panama. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-species-extinct-river-dolphin-discovered-panama/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Biotechnology: Delays in and Status of EPA’s Efforts to Issue a TSCA Regulation. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Copeland EJ. A grant proposal for individuals with severe mental illness. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2010.

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]

Kelly K, Stevenson A. Soros Fund Plucks Executive From UBS to Lead Investing. New York Times 2017:B2.

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)