How to format your references using the Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases. 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. Gewin V. In search of the élite. Nature. 2003;426:713–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Richardson MI, Wilson RJ. A topographically forced asymmetry in the martian circulation and climate. Nature. 2002;416:298–301.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Srianand R, Petitjean P, Ledoux C. The cosmic microwave background radiation temperature at a redshift of 2.34. Nature. 2000;408:931–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Sancak Y, Peterson TR, Shaul YD, Lindquist RA, Thoreen CC, Bar-Peled L, et al. The Rag GTPases bind raptor and mediate amino acid signaling to mTORC1. Science. 2008;320:1496–501.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Glover F, Klingman D, Phillips NV. Network Models in Optimization and their Applications in Practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1992.

An edited book

1. Tok ME, Alkhater LRM, Pal LA, editors. Policy-Making in a Transformative State: The Case of Qatar. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Cook RT. Vagueness and Meaning. In: Ronzitti G, editor. Vagueness: A Guide. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011. p. 83–106.

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 Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases.

Blog post

1. Andrews R. “Cyclops” Dung Beetles Created By Switching Off Gene That Manufactures Their Horn [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/cyclops-dung-beetles-created-switching-off-gene-manufactures-horn/

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. Domestic Aviation: Barriers Continue to Limit Competition. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Oct. Report No.: T-RCED-98-32.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Schlumbrecht CE. Do Negative Experiences Influence Substance Use in Adolescent Males and Females? [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2015.

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. Wilson M. Sentencing Will Provide Coda for Television Producer’s Real Crime Drama. New York Times. 2017 Aug 14;A21.

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 Treatment Options in Infectious Diseases
Abbreviation	Curr. Treat. Options Infect. Dis.
ISSN (online)	1534-6250
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