How to format your references using the IDCases citation style

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

Toulouse G. Community groups could show Unesco the way. Nature 2000;405:394.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Lu X, Brelsford C. Network structure and community evolution on Twitter: human behavior change in response to the 2011 Japanese earthquake and tsunami. Sci Rep 2014;4:6773.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ochedowski O, Bussmann BK, Schleberger M. Graphene on mica - intercalated water trapped for life. Sci Rep 2014;4:6003.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Singh R, Gorstein SV, Bednarek F, Chou JH, McGowan EC, Visintainer PF. A predictive model for SIVH risk in preterm infants and targeted indomethacin therapy for prevention. Sci Rep 2013;3:2539.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hoschette JA. The Engineer’s Career Guide. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Schnars U. Digital Holography and Wavefront Sensing: Principles, Techniques and Applications. 2nd ed. 2015. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Aunio P, Tapola A, Mononen R, Niemivirta M. Early Mathematics Skill Development, Low Performance, and Parental Support in the Finnish Context. In: Blevins-Knabe B, Austin AMB, editors. Early Childhood Mathematics Skill Development in the Home Environment, Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016, p. 51–70.

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 IDCases.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. Study Reveals Half of Americans Buy Into Medical Conspiracy Theories. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/study-reveals-half-americans-buy-medical-conspiracy-theories/ (accessed October 30, 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. Climate Monitoring: NOAA Can Improve Management of the U.S. Historical Climatology Network. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2011.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gramajo GG. Guidance control of small UAV with energy and maneuverability limitations for a search and coverage mission. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2014.

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]

Scheiber N. Fight for $15 Widens Focus. 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	IDCases
Abbreviation	IDCases
ISSN (print)	2214-2509
Scope