How to format your references using the The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease (IJTLD). 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

De Libero G. Immunology. The Robin Hood of antigen presentation. Science 2004; 303(5657): 485–487.

A journal article with 2 authors

Holmes K V, Enjuanes L. Virology. The SARS coronavirus: a postgenomic era. Science 2003; 300(5624): 1377–1378.

A journal article with 3 authors

Stroud R M, Nittler L R, Alexander C M O. Polymorphism in presolar Al2O3 grains from asymptotic giant branch stars. Science 2004; 305(5689): 1455–1457.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Arimura G, Ozawa R, Shimoda T, Nishioka T, Boland W, Takabayashi J. Herbivory-induced volatiles elicit defence genes in lima bean leaves. Nature 2000; 406(6795): 512–515.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Attoh-Okine N O. Big Data and Differential Privacy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2017.

An edited book

Maass W, Kowatsch T, eds. Semantic Technologies in Content Management Systems: Trends, Applications and Evaluations. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2012. X, 206 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Armaselu B, Daescu O. Algorithms for Fair Partitioning of Convex Polygons. In: Zhang Z, Wu L, Xu W, Du D-Z, eds. Combinatorial Optimization and Applications: 8th International Conference, COCOA 2014, Wailea, Maui, HI, USA, December 19-21, 2014, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014: pp 53–65.

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 International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease.

Blog post

Andrews R. Yellowstone Microbe Piggybacks On Others To Steal Their Nutrients. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/yellowstone-microbe-piggybacks-on-others-to-steal-their-nutrients/ (2016, accessed October 30, 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

Government Accountability Office. Spectrum Management: NTIA Planning and Processes Need Strengthening to Promote the Efficient Use of Spectrum by Federal Agencies. GAO-11-352Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, April 12, 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bryant T L. The Influence of High School Preparation on Black Male Students’ Ability to Succeed at the Post-Secondary Level. Doctoral DissertationCalifornia 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

Walsh M W. Audit Finds Errors in Calculating Pensions in Bankruptcies. New York Times, November 17, 2011, B2.

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 International Journal of Tuberculosis and Lung Disease
ISSN (print)	1027-3719
ISSN (online)	1815-7920
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