How to format your references using the Current Opinion in Virology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Opinion in 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	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

Merilä J: Evolutionary biology: Perplexing effects of phenotypic plasticity. Nature 2015, 525:326–327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chang JB, Ferrell JE Jr: Mitotic trigger waves and the spatial coordination of the Xenopus cell cycle. Nature 2013, 500:603–607.

A journal article with 3 authors

Jeon S-M, Chandel NS, Hay N: AMPK regulates NADPH homeostasis to promote tumour cell survival during energy stress. Nature 2012, 485:661–665.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Lonhienne TGA, Trusov Y, Young A, Rentsch D, Näsholm T, Schmidt S, Paungfoo-Lonhienne C: Effects of externally supplied protein on root morphology and biomass allocation in Arabidopsis. Sci Rep 2014, 4:5055.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silvia T, Anzur T: Power Performance. Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

Rhodes J: Boolean Representations of Simplicial Complexes and Matroids. Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Fornasiero R, Chiodi A, Carpanzano E, Carneiro L: Research Issues on Customer-Oriented and Eco-friendly Networks for Healthy Fashionable Goods. In Balanced Automation Systems for Future Manufacturing Networks: 9th IFIP WG 5.5 International Conference, BASYS 2010, Valencia, Spain, July 21-23, 2010. Proceedings. Edited by Ortiz Á, Franco RD, Gasquet PG. Springer; 2010:36–44.

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 Opinion in Virology.

Blog post

Andrew E: No Exoskeleton, No Brain Surgery: Paralyzed Man Walks Again Using Brain Waves. IFLScience 2015,

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: Public Radio and the Role of Federal Funding. U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Packard JA: Analyzing the intersection of leadership practices, emotional intelligence, and coping responses in women -owned small businesses. 2008,

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

Michael Kelly With: THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: The Vietnam War; Campaign Focus on Vietnam Reviving Debates of the 60’s. New York Times 1992,

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 Opinion in Virology
Abbreviation	Curr. Opin. Virol.
ISSN (print)	1879-6257
ISSN (online)	1879-6265
Scope	Virology