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. Cobb M. Wondrous order. Nature. 2001;413:779.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Teotónio H, Rose MR. Variation in the reversibility of evolution. Nature. 2000;408:463–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nishida N, Katamine S, Manuelidis L. Reciprocal interference between specific CJD and scrapie agents in neural cell cultures. Science. 2005;310:493–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Nayak M, Singh D, Singh H, Kant R, Gupta A, Pandey SS, et al. Integrated sorting, concentration and real time PCR based detection system for sensitive detection of microorganisms. Sci Rep. 2013;3:3266.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Robertson B, Vignaux GA, Berger CEH. Interpreting Evidence. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Blyth J, Dietrich S, Camp LJ, editors. Financial Cryptography and Data Security: FC 2012 Workshops, USEC and WECSR 2012, Kralendijk, Bonaire, March 2, 2012, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Meanwell NA, Langley DR. Inhibitors of Protein-Protein Interactions in Paramyxovirus Fusion: A Focus on Respiratory Syncytial Virus. In: Wendt MD, editor. Protein-Protein Interactions. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 167–96.

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. Fang J. Eye-Catching Iridescence is an Anti-Predator Defense. IFLScience. 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/eye-catching-iridescence-anti-predator-defense/. 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. Early Childhood Programs: Promoting the Development of Young Children in Denmark, France, and Italy. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Barbeau SJ. A Location-Aware Architecture Supporting Intelligent Real-Time Mobile Applications. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida; 2012.

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. MacFARQUHAR N. Russia’s Government Does Little as H.I.V. Cases Surpass a Million. New York Times. 2016;:A4.

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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