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. Mejia R. Human rights: from accountability to rebuilding. Science. 2006;313:289.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Xu D, Zhang Y. Ab Initio structure prediction for Escherichia coli: towards genome-wide protein structure modeling and fold assignment. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1895.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Laubach M, Wessberg J, Nicolelis MA. Cortical ensemble activity increasingly predicts behaviour outcomes during learning of a motor task. Nature. 2000;405:567–71.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. O’Neal KR, Brinzari TV, Wright JB, Ma C, Giri S, Schlueter JA, et al. Pressure-induced magnetic crossover driven by hydrogen bonding in CuF₂(H₂O)₂(3-chloropyridine). Sci Rep. 2014;4:6054.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Sue DW. Overcoming Our Racism. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2003.

An edited book

1. Agnoletti M, editor. Italian Historical Rural Landscapes: Cultural Values for the Environment and Rural Development. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kendall M, Martin KM. On the Role of Expander Graphs in Key Predistribution Schemes for Wireless Sensor Networks. In: Armknecht F, Lucks S, editors. Research in Cryptology: 4th Western European Workshop, WEWoRC 2011, Weimar, Germany, July 20-22, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 62–82.

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. Are Infectious Diseases Spreading Through Bat Caves And Bat Meat In West Africa? IFLScience. 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Minicomputers. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1973 Jan. Report No.: 090927.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Verdi KC. What Does It Mean to Be a Service-Learning Teacher? - An Autoethnography [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tampa, FL]: University of South Florida; 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

1. Walsh MW. Maine Giving Social Security Another Look. New York Times. 2010 Jul 21;A1.

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
Scope

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