How to format your references using the Forum on Immunopathological Diseases and Therapeutics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Forum on Immunopathological Diseases and Therapeutics (FIDT). 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

Zubelewicz A. Liquid-liquid-solid transition in viscoelastic liquids. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1323.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chang M, Lingner J. Cell signaling. Tel2 finally tells one story. Science. 2008 Apr 4;320(5872):60–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Green JL, Bohannan BJM, Whitaker RJ. Microbial biogeography: from taxonomy to traits. Science. 2008 May 23;320(5879):1039–43.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Prince JA, Rana D, Matsuura T, Ayyanar N, Shanmugasundaram TS, Singh G. Nanofiber based triple layer hydro-philic/-phobic membrane--a solution for pore wetting in membrane distillation. Sci Rep. 2014 Nov 7;4:6949.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chen W, Xiao H, Wang Q, Zhao L, Zhu M. Integrated Vehicle Dynamics and Control. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Kaye AD, Vadivelu N, Urman RD, editors. Substance Abuse: Inpatient and Outpatient Management for Every Clinician. New York, NY: Springer; 2015. XX, 658 p. 65 illus., 29 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Iqbal R, Shah N, James A, Akhgar B, Younas M, Chao KM. Developing Ubiquitous Collaborating Multi-Agent Systems Based on QoS Requirements. In: Shen W, Luo J, Lin Z, Barthès JPA, Hao Q, editors. Computer Supported Cooperative Work in Design III: 10th International Conference, CSCWD 2006, Nanjing, China, May 3-5, 2006, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 43–52. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Forum on Immunopathological Diseases and Therapeutics.

Blog post

Carpineti A. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. We Might Be Witnessing The Birth Of An Ice Giant Planet. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/we-might-be-witnessing-the-birth-of-an-ice-giant-planet/

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. Higher Education: More Information Could Help Education Determine the Extent to Which Eligible Servicemembers Serving on Active Duty Benefited from Relief Provided by Lenders and Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Nov. Report No.: GAO-07-11.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wansapura AN. The role of alpha sodium,potassium-ATPase isoforms in mediating cardiac hypertrophy in response to endogenous cardiotonic steroids [Doctoral dissertation]. [Cincinnati, OH]: University of Cincinnati; 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

Shear MD, Martin J. Trump Welcomes West Virginia Governor to G.O.P. New York Times. 2017 Aug 3;A14.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Forum on Immunopathological Diseases and Therapeutics
ISSN (print)	2151-8017
ISSN (online)	2151-8025
Scope