How to format your references using the The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene. 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 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

Cherry M., 2000. Construction starts on largest telescope in the south. Nature 407: 4

A journal article with 2 authors

Benoist C, Hacohen N., 2011. Immunology. Flow cytometry, amped up. Science 332: 677–678

A journal article with 3 authors

Dean R, Bonsall MB, Pizzari T., 2007. Evolution. Aging and sexual conflict. Science 316: 383–384

A journal article with 16 or more authors

Lu H-X, Cao L-Z, Zhao J-Q, Li Y-D, Wang X-Q., 2014. Extreme violation of local realism with a hyper-entangled four-photon-eight-qubit Greenberger-Horne-Zelinger state. Sci Rep 4: 4476

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eden AH., 2011. Codecharts. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Thorup M ed., 2016. Intellectual History of Economic Normativities. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US

A chapter in an edited book

Kerr CIV, Phaal R, Probert DR., 2013. Roadmapping as a Responsive Mode to Government Policy: A Goal-Orientated Approach to Realising a Vision. Moehrle MG, Isenmann R, Phaal R, eds. Technology Roadmapping for Strategy and Innovation: Charting the Route to Success. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 67–87

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 The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J., 2017. This Super-Earth Atmosphere Might Have Massive Implications For The Search For Life. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/this-superearth-atmosphere-might-have-massive-implications-for-the-search-for-life/. Accessed. April 6, 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

Government Accountability Office., 2006. Air Traffic Control Modernization: Status of the Current Program and Planning for the Next Generation Air Transportation System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Van Vlack KA., 2012. Puaxant tuvip: Powerlands Southern Paiute cultural landscapes and pilgrimage trails. Tucson, AZ: University of Arizona

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

Goodman PS., 2017. As U.S. Raises Walls on Trade, Allies Move On

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	The American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene
Abbreviation	Am. J. Trop. Med. Hyg.
ISSN (print)	0002-9637
ISSN (online)	1476-1645
Scope	Parasitology Virology Infectious Diseases