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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Asian Pacific Journal of Tropical Medicine (APJTM). 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]

Gerber C. Heinrich Rohrer (1933-2013). Nature 2013;499(7456):30.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hazeltine E, Ivry RB. Neuroscience. Can we teach the cerebellum new tricks? Science 2002;296(5575):1979–1980.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Mullen KT, Kim YJ, Gheiratmand M. Contrast normalization in colour vision: the effect of luminance contrast on colour contrast detection. Sci Rep 2014;4:7350.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Thomas DB, Nascimbene PC, Dove CJ, Grimaldi DA, James HF. Seeking carotenoid pigments in amber-preserved fossil feathers. Sci Rep 2014;4:5226.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Geisser S. Modes of Parametric Statistical Inference: Geisser/Modes of Parametric Statistical Inference. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Nitiss JL, Heitman J (eds.). Yeast as a Tool in Cancer Research. Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Recker J, Safrudin N, Rosemann M. How Novices Model Business Processes. In: Hull R, Mendling J, Tai S, editors. Business Process Management: 8th International Conference, BPM 2010, Hoboken, NJ, USA, September 13-16, 2010. Proceedings. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010: 29–44.

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 Medicine.

Blog post

[1]

Hamilton K. Watch A Neurosurgeon Perform A Subdural Hematoma Operation. IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/watch-neurosurgeon-perform-subdural-hematoma-operation/ (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. Year 2000 Computing Challenge: Education Taking Needed Actions But Work Remains. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Chow BJ. Forming Infrastructural Materials by Mechanical Compaction of Lunar and Martian Regolith Simulants. 2016.

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]

Saslow L. Fears of Brown Tide in Suffolk Waters. New York Times. 2007;:LI2.

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 Medicine
Abbreviation	Asian Pac. J. Trop. Med.
ISSN (print)	1995-7645
ISSN (online)	2352-4146
Scope	General Medicine