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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Hammond, W. C. Geophysics. The Ghost of an Earthquake. Science 2005, 310 (5753), 1440–1442.

A journal article with 2 authors

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Joanicot, M.; Ajdari, A. Applied Physics. Droplet Control for Microfluidics. Science 2005, 309 (5736), 887–888.

A journal article with 3 authors

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Galdi, S.; Arcuri, L.; Gawronski, B. Automatic Mental Associations Predict Future Choices of Undecided Decision-Makers. Science 2008, 321 (5892), 1100–1102.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Temelkuran, B.; Hart, S. D.; Benoit, G.; Joannopoulos, J. D.; Fink, Y. Wavelength-Scalable Hollow Optical Fibres with Large Photonic Bandgaps for CO2 Laser Transmission. Nature 2002, 420 (6916), 650–653.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

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Chowdhury, D.; Stauffer, D. Principles of Equilibrium Statistical Mechanics; Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA: Weinheim, FRG, 2005.

An edited book

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Jacob, S. E. Practical Patch Testing and Chemical Allergens in Contact Dermatitis; Herro, E. M., Ed.; Springer: London, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

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Chevitarese, D. S.; Szwarcman, D.; Vellasco, M. Speeding Up the Training of Neural Networks with CUDA Technology. In Artificial Intelligence and Soft Computing: 11th International Conference, ICAISC 2012, Zakopane, Poland, April 29-May 3, 2012, Proceedings, Part I; Rutkowski, L., Korytkowski, M., Scherer, R., Tadeusiewicz, R., Zadeh, L. A., Zurada, J. M., Eds.; Hutchison, D., Kanade, T., Kittler, J., Kleinberg, J. M., Mattern, F., Mitchell, J. C., Naor, M., Nierstrasz, O., Pandu Rangan, C., Steffen, B., Sudan, M., Terzopoulos, D., Tygar, D., Vardi, M. Y., Weikum, G., Series Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012; pp 30–38.

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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Hale, T. This LA Skyscraper Now Features A 300-Meter-High Glass Slide. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/this-la-skyscraper-now-features-a-300meterhigh-glass-slide/ (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. Motor Vehicle Safety: Information on Accidental Fires in Manufacturing Air Bag Propellant; RCED-90-230; 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

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Chappel, A. M. A Longitudinal Investigation of Stress, Complete Mental Health, and Social Support among High School Students. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 2012.

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

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Greenhouse, L. Court Upholds Arizona Limits Imposed on Insanity Defense. New York Times. June 30, 2006, p A19.

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
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