How to format your references using the Eurosurveillance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Eurosurveillance. 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

Sage L. Exoplanets. Nature. 2014 Sep 18;513(7518):327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Li W, Walz JY. Porous nanocomposites with integrated internal domains: application to separation membranes. Sci Rep. 2014 Mar 20;4:4418.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bryden HL, McDonagh EL, King BA. Changes in ocean water mass properties: oscillations or trends? Science. 2003 Jun 27;300(5628):2086–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ishida S, Iwamoto T, Kabuto C, Kira M. A stable silicon-based allene analogue with a formally sp-hybridized silicon atom. Nature. 2003 Feb 13;421(6924):725–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dasgupta A. Resolving Erroneous Reports in Toxicology and Therapeutic Drug Monitoring. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.

An edited book

Sakata T, editor. Applied Matrix and Tensor Variate Data Analysis. 1st ed. 2016. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2016. XI, 136 p. 36 illus., 23 illus. in color. (SpringerBriefs in Statistics).

A chapter in an edited book

Ascher W, Mirovitskaya N. Pitfalls of Macroeconomic Decisions. In: Mirovitskaya N, editor. Development Strategies and Inter-Group Violence: Insights on Conflict-Sensitive Development. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan US; 2016. p. 69–79.

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 Eurosurveillance.

Blog post

Hale T. You Can Now Listen To A Song That Hasn’t Been Played For 1,000 Years [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/listen-song-which-hadnt-been-played-1000-years/

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. What Assurance Does Office of Education’s Eligibility Process Provide? Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979 Jan. Report No.: HRD-78-120.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Jiang W. Advanced techniques for semantic concept detection in general videos [Doctoral dissertation]. [New York, NY]: Columbia University; 2010.

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

Kelly RW. Quotation of the Day. New York Times. 2012 May 25;A2.

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	Eurosurveillance
ISSN (print)	1025-496X
ISSN (online)	1560-7917
Scope