How to format your references using the Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease (APJTD). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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]

Mervis J. U.S. POSTDOCS: Report Urges Better Treatment, Status. Science 2000;289(5486):1854b–5b.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Riordan O, Warnke L. Explosive percolation is continuous. Science 2011;333(6040):322–324.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Davé UP, Jenkins NA, Copeland NG. Gene therapy insertional mutagenesis insights. Science 2004;303(5656):333.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Chong H, Li P, Wang S, Fu F, Xiang J, Zhu M, et al. Au25 clusters as electron-transfer catalysts induced the intramolecular cascade reaction of 2-nitrobenzonitrile. Sci Rep 2013;3:3214.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Coleman DD, Westcott DA, Harkins BE. CWSP®: Certified Wireless Security Professional Study Guide CWSP-205. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Indianapolis, Indiana, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Alladi K, Bhargava M, Savitt D, Tiep PH (eds.). Quadratic and Higher Degree Forms. Springer: New York, NY, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Cho I-Y, Sunwoo J, Son Y-K, Oh M-H, Lee C-H. Development of a Single 3-Axis Accelerometer Sensor Based Wearable Gesture Recognition Band. In: Indulska J, Ma J, Yang LT, Ungerer T, Cao J, editors. Ubiquitous Intelligence and Computing: 4th International Conference, UIC 2007, Hong Kong, China, July 11-13, 2007. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007: 43–52.

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 Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Slowing Down The Development Of Alzheimer’s Plaques. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/slowing-down-development-alzheimers-plaques/ (accessed 30 Oct 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. The Air Force Continued To Develop the Advanced Logistics System, a Program It Was Directed To Cancel. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Pathak A. The Role of the Protein Phosphatase 1 Inhibitor-1 In Regulation of Murine Cardiac Physiology and Progression of Cardiomyopathy. 2006.

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]

Wines M. Fearing Hackers, States Upgrade Voting Systems. 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	Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Disease
Abbreviation	Asian Pac. J. Trop. Dis.
ISSN (print)	2222-1808
Scope	Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)