How to format your references using the Future Virology citation style

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

Service RF. BODY CHEMISTRY: Forensic Science on a Shoestring. Science. 289(5481), 857 (2000).

A journal article with 2 authors

Kaufman AJ, Xiao S. High CO2 levels in the Proterozoic atmosphere estimated from analyses of individual microfossils. Nature. 425(6955), 279–282 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

Pfanner N, Wiedemann N, Meisinger C. Cell biology. Double membrane fusion. Science. 305(5691), 1723–1724 (2004).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Kim D, Park D, Choi S, et al. Thalamic control of visceral nociception mediated by T-type Ca2+ channels. Science. 302(5642), 117–119 (2003).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stoute K. Help, I’m Rich! John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Kitada M, Williams E, Froholdt LL, editors. Maritime Women: Global Leadership. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Sweigart V, Krechmery K. Interaction of Performance Measurements, Staffing, and Facility Requirements for the Heart Failure Observation Unit. In: Short Stay Management of Acute Heart Failure. Peacock WF (Ed.), Humana Press, Totowa, NJ, 59–63 (2012).

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 Future Virology.

Blog post

Hale T. The Helmeted Hornbill Is The Latest “Trend” In The Illegal Wildlife Trade [Internet]. IFLScience (2016). Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/the-helmeted-hornbill-is-the-latest-trend-in-the-illegal-wildlife-trade/.

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. Compensatory Education: Chapter 1’s Comparability of Services Provision. 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

Baker MC. A descriptive study of the view from the top: Perspectives of experts in continuing medical education. (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

Baker AL. Push to Rid City of Classrooms That Are Anything but Temporary. New York Times, A18 (2014).

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	Future Virology
Abbreviation	Future Virol.
ISSN (print)	1746-0794
ISSN (online)	1746-0808
Scope	Virology