How to format your references using the ACS Infectious Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for ACS Infectious Diseases. 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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

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Lundstrom, M. Applied Physics. Moore’s Law Forever? Science 2003, 299 (5604), 210–211.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Kaser, A.; Blumberg, R. S. Cell Biology: Stressful Genetics in Crohn’s Disease. Nature 2014, 506 (7489), 441–442.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Williams, M. A.; Tyznik, A. J.; Bevan, M. J. Interleukin-2 Signals during Priming Are Required for Secondary Expansion of CD8+ Memory T Cells. Nature 2006, 441 (7095), 890–893.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

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Klein, D. R.; MacNeill, D.; Lado, J. L.; Soriano, D.; Navarro-Moratalla, E.; Watanabe, K.; Taniguchi, T.; Manni, S.; Canfield, P.; Fernández-Rossier, J.; Jarillo-Herrero, P. Probing Magnetism in 2D van Der Waals Crystalline Insulators via Electron Tunneling. Science 2018, 360 (6394), 1218–1222.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Darbyshire, P.; Hampton, D. Hedge Fund Modelling and Analysis Using Excel and VBA; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.: Chichester, West Sussex, UK, 2012.

An edited book

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Brachytherapy: An International Perspective; Montemaggi, P., Trombetta, M., Brady, L. W., Eds.; Medical Radiology; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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Hutter, K.; Wang, Y. Conservation of Angular Momentum—Vorticity. In Fluid and Thermodynamics: Volume 1: Basic Fluid Mechanics; Wang, Y., Ed.; Advances in Geophysical and Environmental Mechanics and Mathematics; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp 159–195.

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 ACS Infectious Diseases.

Blog post

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Taub, B. Long-Term Cannabis Use May Make You Age Faster. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/longterm-cannabis-use-may-make-you-age-faster/ (accessed 2018-10-30).

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

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Government Accountability Office. Status of Office of Education’s National Direct Student Loan Funds at Selected Postsecondary Education Institutions; HRD-78-94; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1978.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Wheat, B. R. Effects of Intercropping Switchgrass in Managed Pine Stands on Plant Communities and White-Tailed Deer Forage Production. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, 2015.

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)

Gavin, J. The Divine One. New York Times. July 20, 2017, p BR22.

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	ACS Infectious Diseases
Abbreviation	ACS Infect. Dis.
ISSN (online)	2373-8227
Scope