How to format your references using the International Journal of Mycobacteriology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Mycobacteriology. 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]

J. Rampling, Tudor technology: Shakespeare and science, Nature 508 (2014) 39–40.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

J. Zhang, F.K.-M. Chan, Cell biology. RIPK3 takes another deadly turn, Science 343 (2014) 1322–1323.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E.K. Nishimura, S.R. Granter, D.E. Fisher, Mechanisms of hair graying: incomplete melanocyte stem cell maintenance in the niche, Science 307 (2005) 720–724.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

P. Kukura, D.W. McCamant, S. Yoon, D.B. Wandschneider, R.A. Mathies, Structural observation of the primary isomerization in vision with femtosecond-stimulated Raman, Science 310 (2005) 1006–1009.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

R. Fernandes, Local and Regional Flaps in Head & Neck Reconstruction, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2014.

An edited book

[1]

G. Meško, D. Dimitrijević, C.B. Fields, eds., Understanding and Managing Threats to the Environment in South Eastern Europe, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

R. Basseda, M. Kifer, Planning with Regression Analysis in Transaction Logic, in: B. ten Cate, A. Mileo (Eds.), Web Reasoning and Rule Systems: 9th International Conference, RR 2015, Berlin, Germany, August 4-5, 2015, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 45–60.

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 International Journal of Mycobacteriology.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, NASA Just Revealed 12 New Astronauts - But No One Knows Where They’re Going, IFLScience (2017).

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, Stafford Student Loans: Millions of Dollars in Loans Awarded to Ineligible Borrowers, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

G.A. Hrivnak, Extending a model of leader -member exchange development: Individual and dyadic effects of personality, similarity and liking, Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, 2009.

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]

J. Gorman, Sciencetake: An Effort to Put a Blue, Whirling Vortex of Fire to Good Use, New York Times (2016) D2.

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	International Journal of Mycobacteriology
Abbreviation	Int. J. Mycobacteriol.
ISSN (print)	2212-5531
Scope	Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)