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]

Leask J. Target the fence-sitters. Nature 2011;473:443–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zhong W, Sternberg PW. Genome-wide prediction of C. elegans genetic interactions. Science 2006;311:1481–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Le Mée L, Girardeau J, Monnier C. Mantle segmentation along the Oman ophiolite fossil mid-ocean ridge. Nature 2004;432:167–72.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Zouni A, Witt HT, Kern J, Fromme P, Krauss N, Saenger W, et al. Crystal structure of photosystem II from Synechococcus elongatus at 3.8 A resolution. Nature 2001;409:739–43.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mynbaev KT. Short-Memory Linear Processes and Econometric Applications. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Poston DL Jr, Yang WS, Farris DN, editors. The Family and Social Change in Chinese Societies. vol. 35. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Gribovskaya N, Virbitskaite I. A Categorical Observation of Timed Testing Equivalence. In: Malyshkin V, editor. Parallel Computing Technologies: 9th International Conference, PaCT 2007, Pereslavl-Zalessky, Russia, September 3-7, 2007. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007, p. 35–46.

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]

Hamilton K. The US Needs To Improve Its Science Literacy, Says Astronaut Mae Jemison. IFLScience 2016.

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. Delegation of GSA Procurement Authority for Automatic Data Processing Equipment Acquisitions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Jenrich MA. “To treat her as a woman”: African American women and respectability in New York, 1860-1890. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Otis J. For the First Time, She Hears the Birds Chirp And the Wind Whistle. New York Times 2017:A19.

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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