How to format your references using the Annual Review of Virology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of Virology. 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

Balter M. 2000. SPONGIFORM DISEASE: Experts Downplay New vCJD Fears. Science. 289(5485):1663b–66

A journal article with 2 authors

Quasdorf KW, Overman LE. 2014. Catalytic enantioselective synthesis of quaternary carbon stereocentres. Nature. 516(7530):181–91

A journal article with 3 authors

Stevens RC, Yokoyama S, Wilson IA. 2001. Global efforts in structural genomics. Science. 294(5540):89–92

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Rosengren AH, Jokubka R, Tojjar D, Granhall C, Hansson O, et al. 2010. Overexpression of alpha2A-adrenergic receptors contributes to type 2 diabetes. Science. 327(5962):217–20

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Ng R. 2005. Drugs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Golland P, Hata N, Barillot C, Hornegger J, Howe R, eds. 2014. Medical Image Computing and Computer-Assisted Intervention – MICCAI 2014: 17th International Conference, Boston, MA, USA, September 14-18, 2014, Proceedings, Part II, Vol. 8674. Cham: Springer International Publishing. XXX, 824 p. 365 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Jiang HW, Yablonovitch E, Xiao M, Sakr M, Scott G, Croke ET. 2009. Single-Electron-Spin Measurements in Si-Based Semiconductor Nanostructures. In Electron Spin Resonance and Related Phenomena in Low-Dimensional Structures, ed M Fanciulli, pp. 81–100. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Virology.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2015. How Likely Is It That Your Job Will Be Replaced By A Robot? IFLScience

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. 2004. Survey of Supervisors at U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, an E-supplement to GAO-04-422. GAO-04-616SP, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wonnacott CJ. 2017. Ambiguity in Theory and Neutrality in Practice: The Allied Intervention and the American Expeditionary Force in Siberia. Doctoral dissertation thesis. George Washington University

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

Kenigsberg B. 2017. Film Series. New York Times, May 12, p. C26

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Annual Review of Virology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Virol.
ISSN (print)	2327-056X
ISSN (online)	2327-0578
Scope	Virology