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

Van Dover CL. Tighten regulations on deep-sea mining. Nature. 470(7332), 31–33 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

Hogan DA, Kolter R. Pseudomonas-Candida interactions: an ecological role for virulence factors. Science. 296(5576), 2229–2232 (2002).

A journal article with 3 authors

Gill RJ, Ramos-Rodriguez O, Raine NE. Combined pesticide exposure severely affects individual- and colony-level traits in bees. Nature. 491(7422), 105–108 (2012).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Yin H, Pruyne D, Huffaker TC, Bretscher A. Myosin V orientates the mitotic spindle in yeast. Nature. 406(6799), 1013–1015 (2000).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Islam MR, Islam JS, Zatzman GM, Mughal MAH, Rahman MS. The Greening of Pharmaceutical Engineering. John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Giménez S, Bisquert J, editors. Photoelectrochemical Solar Fuel Production: From Basic Principles to Advanced Devices. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Grönlund Å, Susha I. A Communication Genre Perspective on e-Petitioning: The Case of the Citizens’ Initiative. In: Electronic Participation: 4th IFIP WG 8.5 International Conference, ePart 2012, Kristiansand, Norway, September 3-5, 2012. Proceedings. Tambouris E, Macintosh A, Sæbø Ø (Eds.), Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 37–48 (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

Hamilton K. Addicted To Oil: US Gasoline Consumption Is Higher Than Ever. IFLScience (2016).

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. Inconsistencies in Awarding Financial Aid to Students Under Four Federal Programs. 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

Clendening RJ. A structured methodology for unifying functional analysis with systems analysis to enhance system behavior knowledge. (2009).

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

Feeney K. QUICK BITE: Cranford; Cranford Didn’t Get the Olympics, Either. New York Times, 14NJ13 (2005).

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