How to format your references using the Antiviral Research citation style

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

Kirkwood, T.B.L., 2008. A systematic look at an old problem. Nature 451, 644–647.

A journal article with 2 authors

Tanaka, A., Sakaguchi, S., 2015. Immunology. Early life Aire. Science 348, 506–507.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schieber, J., Krinsley, D., Riciputi, L., 2000. Diagenetic origin of quartz silt in mudstones and implications for silica cycling. Nature 406, 981–985.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Corti, D., Voss, J., Gamblin, S.J., Codoni, G., Macagno, A., Jarrossay, D., Vachieri, S.G., Pinna, D., Minola, A., Vanzetta, F., Silacci, C., Fernandez-Rodriguez, B.M., Agatic, G., Bianchi, S., Giacchetto-Sasselli, I., Calder, L., Sallusto, F., Collins, P., Haire, L.F., Temperton, N., Langedijk, J.P.M., Skehel, J.J., Lanzavecchia, A., 2011. A neutralizing antibody selected from plasma cells that binds to group 1 and group 2 influenza A hemagglutinins. Science 333, 850–856.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Celant, G., Broniatowski, M., 2017. Interpolation and Extrapolation Optimal Designs 2. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Daniilidis, K., Klette, R. (Eds.), 2006. Imaging Beyond the Pinhole Camera. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

A chapter in an edited book

Alpay, D., Luna-Elizarrarás, M.E., Shapiro, M., Struppa, D.C., 2014. Linear Functionals and Linear Operators on $${\mathbb {B}}{\mathbb {C}}$$ B C -Modules, in: Luna-Elizarrarás, M.E., Shapiro, M., Struppa, D.C. (Eds.), Basics of Functional Analysis with Bicomplex Scalars, and Bicomplex Schur Analysis, SpringerBriefs in Mathematics. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp. 63–77.

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 Antiviral Research.

Blog post

Carpineti, A., 2015. Astronomers Witness The Dying “Breath” Of A Giant Radio Galaxy [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-witness-dying-breath-giant-radio-galaxy/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 2006. Media Contracts: Activities and Financial Obligations for Seven Federal Departments (No. GAO-06-305). 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

Pockross, A.F., 2010. Campbell, Turner and dog training in Adam Freeman Pockross’s “Every Good Boy Deserves Fudge” (Doctoral dissertation). California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Kelly, M., 1993. Again: It’s Hillary Rodham Clinton. Got That? New York Times 133.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Kirkwood, 2008).
This sentence cites two references (Kirkwood, 2008; Tanaka and Sakaguchi, 2015).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Tanaka and Sakaguchi, 2015)
Three or more authors: (Corti et al., 2011)

About the journal

Full journal title	Antiviral Research
Abbreviation	Antiviral Res.
ISSN (print)	0166-3542
Scope	Virology Pharmacology