How to format your references using the Tuberculosis citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Tuberculosis. 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

[1]

Cannon B. Cardiovascular disease: Biochemistry to behaviour. Nature 2013;493:S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lyon BE, Eadie JM. An obligate brood parasite trapped in the intraspecific arms race of its hosts. Nature 2004;432:390–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Li Y, Moon K-S, Wong CP. Materials science. Electronics without lead. Science 2005;308:1419–20.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Martina BEE, Haagmans BL, Kuiken T, Fouchier RAM, Rimmelzwaan GF, Van Amerongen G, et al. Virology: SARS virus infection of cats and ferrets. Nature 2003;425:915.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hernandez EM, Kamal-Eldin A. Processing and Nutrition of Fats and Oils. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2013.

An edited book

[1]

Curzio AQ, Fortis M, editors. The EU and the Economies of the Eastern European Enlargement. Heidelberg: Physica-Verlag HD; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dempe S, Kalashnikov V, Pérez-Valdés GA, Kalashnykova N. Convex Bilevel Programs. In: Kalashnikov V, Pérez-Valdés GA, Kalashnykova N, editors. Bilevel Programming Problems: Theory, Algorithms and Applications to Energy Networks, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015, p. 117–31.

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 Tuberculosis.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. In The Ocean, The Most Harmful Plastic Is Too Small To See. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/ocean-most-harmful-plastic-too-small-see/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration: Education and Outreach Programs Target Safety and Consumer Issues, but Gaps in Planning and Evaluation Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Tse J. An explication of the Hilbert basis theorem and its relation to school mathematics. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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]

Kelly R. Mortality Tale. New York Times 1993:711.

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	Tuberculosis
Abbreviation	Tuberculosis (Edinb.)
ISSN (print)	1472-9792
Scope	Immunology Microbiology Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)