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. Klein RG. Paleoanthropology. Whither the Neanderthals? Science. 2003;299:1525–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Dragoi G, Tonegawa S. Preplay of future place cell sequences by hippocampal cellular assemblies. Nature. 2011;469:397–401.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Bennett VC, Brandon AD, Nutman AP. Coupled 142Nd-143Nd isotopic evidence for Hadean mantle dynamics. Science. 2007;318:1907–10.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Gross C, Zhuang X, Stark K, Ramboz S, Oosting R, Kirby L, et al. Serotonin1A receptor acts during development to establish normal anxiety-like behaviour in the adult. Nature. 2002;416:396–400.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Saksena FB. Patient Studies in Valvular, Congenital, and Rarer Forms of Cardiovascular Disease. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Cai W, editor. Engineering in Translational Medicine. London: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Altpeter F, Korzun V. Rye. In: Pua E-C, Davey MR, editors. Transgenic Crops IV. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 107–17.

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. Fang J. 3D Cancer Vaccine Recruits Infection-Fighting Cells [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/3d-cancer-vaccine-recruits-infection-fighting-cells/

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. Early Education and Care: Overlap Indicates Need to Assess Crosscutting Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000 Apr. Report No.: HEHS-00-78.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Willis TY. Rare but there: An intersectional exploration of the experiences and outcomes of Black women who studied abroad through community college programs [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Vecsey G. A Whirlwind Start For St. John’s and Lavin. New York Times. 2010 Nov 19;B12.

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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