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]

Bockrath MW. Chemistry. A single-molecule engine. Science 2012;338:754–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Makse HA, Kurchan J. Testing the thermodynamic approach to granular matter with a numerical model of a decisive experiment. Nature 2002;415:614–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fradkin E, Kivelson SA, Oganesyan V. Physics. Electron nematic phase in a transition metal oxide. Science 2007;315:196–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Neumann B, Walter T, Hériché J-K, Bulkescher J, Erfle H, Conrad C, et al. Phenotypic profiling of the human genome by time-lapse microscopy reveals cell division genes. Nature 2010;464:721–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Beagle JR. Surgical Essentials of Immediate Implant Dentistry. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Ochiai H, Anjyo K, editors. Mathematical Progress in Expressive Image Synthesis II: Extended and Selected Results from the Symposium MEIS2014. vol. 18. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Liu Z. Asthma. In: Liu Z, editor. Essentials of Chinese Medicine: Essentials of Clinical Specialties in Chinese Medicine, London: Springer; 2009, p. 33–43.

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]

Andrews R. Mental Health Support Will Disappear Under The GOP Healthcare Act. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/mental-health-support-disappear-under-gop-healthcare-act/ (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. Getting the New Communities Program Started: Progress and Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1974.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Chellamuthu VK. Structured Population Models: Numerical Methods and Application to Frogs Infected with Chytridiomycosis. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, 2015.

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]

Fink S, Risen J, Savage C. New Details of C.I.A. Torture, and a New Clash. New York Times 2017: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)

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