How to format your references using the Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases (BJID). 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Parton RG. Cell biology. Life without caveolae. Science. 2001;293(5539):2404–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Whitesides GM., Grzybowski B. Self-assembly at all scales. Science. 2002;295(5564):2418–21.

A journal article with 3 authors

Percec V., Ungar G., Peterca M. Chemistry. Self-assembly in action. Science. 2006;313(5783):55–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wang L., Eckmann CR., Kadyk LC., Wickens M., Kimble J. A regulatory cytoplasmic poly(A) polymerase in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 2002;419(6904):312–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Adams F., Aizawa K. The Bounds of Cognition. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2010.

An edited book

Sumathi S. Fundamentals of Relational Database Management Systems. vol. 47. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

Isabelle AD., Valle NZ. Engineering. In: Valle NZ, editor. Inspiring STEM Minds: Biographies and Activities for Elementary Classrooms. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2016. p. 103–22.

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 Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Blog post

Luntz S. How A Fungus Could Recycle Your Smartphone. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-a-fungus-could-recycle-your-smartphone/ [accessed October 30, 2018].

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. Aviation Security: Federal Air Marshal Service Is Addressing Challenges of Its Expanded Mission and Workforce, but Additional Actions Needed. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Darnell C. Sharecropping in Higher Education: Case Study of the Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University - Florida State University Joint College of Engineering. Doctoral dissertation, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2017.

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

McKINLEY JC Jr. Actor Set to Have Key Role In Man’s Drug Murder Trial. New York Times. 2017:A22.

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	Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Abbreviation	Braz. J. Infect. Dis.
ISSN (print)	1413-8670
ISSN (online)	1678-4391
Scope

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