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

Haynes CM. Cell biology: Surviving import failure. Nature. 524(7566), 419–420 (2015).

A journal article with 2 authors

Tobias DJ, Hemminger JC. Chemistry. Getting specific about specific ion effects. Science. 319(5867), 1197–1198 (2008).

A journal article with 3 authors

Ice GE, Budai JD, Pang JWL. The race to x-ray microbeam and nanobeam science. Science. 334(6060), 1234–1239 (2011).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Roosild TP, Greenwald J, Vega M, Castronovo S, Riek R, Choe S. NMR structure of Mistic, a membrane-integrating protein for membrane protein expression. Science. 307(5713), 1317–1321 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Li F-C, Yu B, Wei J-J, Kawaguchi Y. Turbulent Drag Reduction by Surfactant Additives. John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd., Singapore.

An edited book

Dalton TC, Evans RB, editors. The Life Cycle of Psychological Ideas: Understanding Prominence and the Dynamics of Intellectual Change. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Artschwager A, Fischer T, Stellmach D, et al. New Quality of Partnership in the Textile World – Concepts and Technologies. In: Transforming Clothing Production into a Demand-driven, Knowledge-based, High-tech Industry: The Leapfrog Paradigm. Walter L, Kartsounis G-A, Carosio S (Eds.), Springer, London, 141–200 (2009).

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

O`Callaghan J. This Guy Hired A Helicopter To Snap The First Image Of A Secret New SpaceX Machine. IFLScience (2017).

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. Air Traffic Control: FAA’s Modernization Investment Management Approach Could Be Strengthened. 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

Bathon JM. Examining the characteristics of school leaders and of local schools where Indiana educational leadership preparation programs place their graduates. (2008).

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

Williams J. Stranger Than Reality? New York Times, BR4 (2017).

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