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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Ferrini-Mundy J. Science education. Driven by diversity. Science 340(6130), 278 (2013).

A journal article with 2 authors

Sheppard SS, Jewitt DC. An abundant population of small irregular satellites around Jupiter. Nature 423(6937), 261–263 (2003).

A journal article with 3 authors

Hayden EJ, Ferrada E, Wagner A. Cryptic genetic variation promotes rapid evolutionary adaptation in an RNA enzyme. Nature 474(7349), 92–95 (2011).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Albrecht S, Reffert S, Snellen IAG, Winn JN. Misaligned spin and orbital axes cause the anomalous precession of DI Herculis. Nature 461(7262), 373–376 (2009).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Weinberg S. Cost-Contained Regulatory Compliance. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ (2011).

An edited book

Gritzalis D, Lopez J (Eds.). Emerging Challenges for Security, Privacy and Trust: 24th IFIP TC 11 International Information Security Conference, SEC 2009, Pafos, Cyprus, May 18–20, 2009. Proceedings. (Volume 297). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg (2009).

A chapter in an edited book

Kafadar AM, Uzan M, Tanriverdi T et al. Cerebrospinal fluid soluble Fas and Fas ligand levels after aneurysmal subarachnoid haemorrhage. In: Cerebral Vasospasm: New Strategies in Research and Treatment. Kırış T, Zhang JH (Ed.), Springer, Vienna, 17–22 (2008).

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

Fang J. ‘A New Parasite Is Infecting Tadpoles Across Three Continents’ (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/new-parasite-infecting-tadpoles-across-three-continents/.

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. The Process for Identifying Needs and Establishing Requirements, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (1974).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Bogenreif C. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, (2017).

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

Cooper M, Walsh MW. Unions Fight Scranton Mayor After He Cuts Pay to Minimum Wage, (2012).

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