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

(1)

Gingeras, T. R. Implications of Chimaeric Non-Co-Linear Transcripts. Nature 2009, 461 (7261), 206–211.

A journal article with 2 authors

(1)

Sung, C. O.; Sohn, I. The Expression Pattern of 19 Genes Predicts the Histology of Endometrial Carcinoma. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 5174.

A journal article with 3 authors

(1)

Chisholm, S. W.; Falkowski, P. G.; Cullen, J. J. Oceans. Dis-Crediting Ocean Fertilization. Science 2001, 294 (5541), 309–310.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

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Iddan, G.; Meron, G.; Glukhovsky, A.; Swain, P. Wireless Capsule Endoscopy. Nature 2000, 405 (6785), 417.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

(1)

Bagdonavičius, V.; Kruopis, J.; Nikulin, M. S. Non-Parametric Tests for Censored Data; John Wiley & Sons, Inc: Hoboken, NJ, 2011.

An edited book

(1)

Plastid Biology; Theg, S. M., Wollman, F.-A., Eds.; Advances in Plant Biology; Springer: New York, NY, 2014; Vol. 5.

A chapter in an edited book

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Beck, A. M.; Robinson, J. W. Sexual Resilience in Couples. In Couple Resilience: Emerging Perspectives; Skerrett, K., Fergus, K., Eds.; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2015; pp 63–82.

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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Andrew, D. If We Ever Came Across Aliens, Would We Be Able To Understand Them?. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/if-we-ever-came-across-aliens-would-we-be-able-to-understand-them/ (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. Health Information Technology: Efforts Continue but Comprehensive Privacy Approach Needed for National Strategy; GAO-07-988T; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007.

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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Brandom, B. M. Spiritual and Emotional Needs of Young Adults Who Are Members of Mainstream Protestant Churches. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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)

Poniewozik, J. Trump’s Name Looms in Mind and Speeches. New York Times. February 27, 2017, p C1.

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