How to format your references using the Epidemics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Epidemics. 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	Download the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Tutu, D., 2011. Genome-sequencing anniversary. My genome. Science 331, 689.

A journal article with 2 authors

Eliades, S.J., Wang, X., 2008. Neural substrates of vocalization feedback monitoring in primate auditory cortex. Nature 453, 1102–1106.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mace, G.M., Gittleman, J.L., Purvis, A., 2003. Preserving the tree of life. Science 300, 1707–1709.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Környei, Z., Beke, S., Mihálffy, T., Jelitai, M., Kovács, K.J., Szabó, Z., Szabó, B., 2013. Cell sorting in a Petri dish controlled by computer vision. Sci. Rep. 3, 1088.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Posudin, Y., 2014. Methods of Measuring Environmental Parameters. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Grosu, A.-L., Nieder, C. (Eds.), 2015. Target Volume Definition in Radiation Oncology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Dreżewski, R., Woźniak, P., Siwik, L., 2009. Agent-Based Evolutionary System for Traveling Salesman Problem, in: Corchado, E., Wu, X., Oja, E., Herrero, Á., Baruque, B. (Eds.), Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems: 4th International Conference, HAIS 2009, Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009. Proceedings, Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp. 34–41.

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 Epidemics.

Blog post

O`Callaghan, J., 2017. Check Out This Cool Footage Of Dust Devils Tearing Across Mars [WWW Document]. IFLScience. URL https://www.iflscience.com/space/check-out-this-cool-footage-of-dust-devils-tearing-across-mars/ (accessed 10.30.18).

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, 1993. Technology Transfer: Improving Incentives For Technology Transfer at Federal Laboratories (No. T-RCED-94-42). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bailey, S.M., 2008. Content Assessment in Intelligent Computer-Aided Language Learning: Meaning Error Diagnosis for English as a Second Language (Doctoral dissertation). Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

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

Feuer, A., Rashbaum, W.K., 2017. Family Past Heightens Enigma of Judge’s Death. New York Times A20.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Tutu, 2011).
This sentence cites two references (Eliades and Wang, 2008; Tutu, 2011).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Eliades and Wang, 2008)
Three or more authors: (Környei et al., 2013)

About the journal

Full journal title	Epidemics
Abbreviation	Epidemics
ISSN (print)	1755-4365
Scope	Microbiology Parasitology Virology Epidemiology Infectious Diseases Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health