How to format your references using the Current Infectious Disease Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Infectious Disease Reports. 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

1. Lagendijk A. Pushing for power. Nature. 2005;438:429.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Ha S-J, Moon JH. In-situ fabrication of macroporous films for dye-sensitised solar cells: formation of the scattering layer and the gelation of electrolytes. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5375.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chen L, Dürr KL, Gouaux E. X-ray structures of AMPA receptor-cone snail toxin complexes illuminate activation mechanism. Science. 2014;345:1021–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Muravyova E, Golovnin A, Gracheva E, Parshikov A, Belenkaya T, Pirrotta V, et al. Loss of insulator activity by paired Su(Hw) chromatin insulators. Science. 2001;291:495–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Loveland WD, Morrissey DJ, Seaborg GT. Modern Nuclear Chemistry. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Demirkan H, Spohrer JC, Krishna V, editors. Service Systems Implementation. 1st ed. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Matsumoto T, Sugita S, Yaguchi T. Biomechanics of Blood Vessels: Structure, Mechanics, and Adaptation. In: Niinomi M, Narushima T, Nakai M, editors. Advances in Metallic Biomaterials: Tissues, Materials and Biological Reactions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015. p. 71–98.

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 Current Infectious Disease Reports.

Blog post

1. Evans K. EPA Finds 97% Of Endangered Species In US Threatened By Two Common Pesticides [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/epa-finds-97-of-endangered-species-in-us-threatened-by-two-common-pesticides/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Aviation Safety: Commuter Airports Should Participate in the Airport Certification Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987 Nov. Report No.: RCED-88-41.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Contreras AG. A reproductive health program for the Latino adolescent community: A grant proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Hu W. An Eyesore for 17 Years in Harlem. New York Times. 2017 Jul 16;A17.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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	Current Infectious Disease Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Infect. Dis. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1523-3847
ISSN (online)	1534-3146
Scope	Infectious Diseases