How to format your references using the Herpesviridae citation style

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

1. Chapman GA. Astronomy. Aspects of our Sun. Science. 2008;322:535–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bunge HP, Grand SP. Mesozoic plate-motion history below the northeast Pacific Ocean from seismic images of the subducted Farallon slab. Nature. 2000;405:337–40.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Verbeeck J, Tian H, Schattschneider P. Production and application of electron vortex beams. Nature. 2010;467:301–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Jiang W, Chang J, Jakana J, Weigele P, King J, Chiu W. Structure of epsilon15 bacteriophage reveals genome organization and DNA packaging/injection apparatus. Nature. 2006;439:612–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ibe OC. Fundamentals of Stochastic Networks. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Sánchez-Alonso S, Athanasiadis IN, editors. Metadata and Semantic Research: 4th International Conference, MTSR 2010, Alcalá de Henares, Spain, October 20-22, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. ter Mors M, Drost R, Harmsen F. Project Portfolio Management in Practice. In: Harmsen F, Proper E, Schalkwijk F, Barjis J, Overbeek S, editors. Practice-Driven Research on Enterprise Transformation: Second Working Conference, PRET 2010, Delft, The Netherlands, November 11, 2010. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010. p. 107–26.

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 Herpesviridae.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. What Are Gravitational Waves? IFLScience. 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/what-are-gravitation-waves/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Automatic Data Processing Activity in the Feed Materials Production Center, Fernald, Ohio. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Bonilla E. Parental Employment Status and Child Feeding Practices Among African American and Latina Adolescent Girls. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach; 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

1. Protess B, Stevenson A. New Scrutiny for JPMorgan in China Hiring. New York Times. 2016;:B1.

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	Herpesviridae
ISSN (print)	2042-4280
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