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

Gladman B. The Kuiper belt and the solar system’s comet disk. Science 307(5706), 71–75 (2005).

A journal article with 2 authors

Wood WB, Gentile JM. Education. Teaching in a research context. Science 302(5650), 1510 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

Sudhakar YA, Verma RK, Pawar SC. Type IV collagen α1-chain noncollagenous domain blocks MMP-2 activation both in-vitro and in-vivo. Sci. Rep. 4, 4136 (2014).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Bearhop S, Fiedler W, Furness RW et al. Assortative mating as a mechanism for rapid evolution of a migratory divide. Science 310(5747), 502–504 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Wiesmann U, Choi IS, Dombrowski E-M. Fundamentals of Biological Wastewater Treatment. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany (2006).

An edited book

Antonopoulos N, Gillam L (Eds.). Cloud Computing: Principles, Systems and Applications. Springer, London (2010).

A chapter in an edited book

Laguillaumie F, Libert B, Quisquater J-J. Universal Designated Verifier Signatures Without Random Oracles or Non-black Box Assumptions. In: Security and Cryptography for Networks: 5th International Conference, SCN 2006, Maiori, Italy, September 6-8, 2006. Proceedings. Prisco RD, Yung M (Ed.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 63–77 (2006).

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. ‘Thanks To Cosmic Rays, We Finally Know What The Inside Of A Pyramid Looks Like’ (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/technology/archeologists-used-cosmic-rays-get-these-images-pyramid-s-insides-0/.

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. Medicaid Information Technology: CMS Supports Use of Program Integrity Systems but Should Require States to Determine Effectiveness, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (2015).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

McAlpine TE. Doctoral dissertation, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC, (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

Smith M, Davey M, Blinder A. Random Shots on a Deadly Night for Kalamazoo, (2016).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

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