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]

Hestmark G. Oeconomia Naturae L. Nature 2000;405:19.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Dennis C, Surridge C. Arabidopsis thaliana genome. Introduction. Nature 2000;408:791.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Agrawal AF, Brodie ED 3rd, Brown J. Parent-offspring coadaptation and the dual genetic control of maternal care. Science 2001;292:1710–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bloom JS, Giannios D, Metzger BD, Cenko SB, Perley DA, Butler NR, et al. A possible relativistic jetted outburst from a massive black hole fed by a tidally disrupted star. Science 2011;333:203–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Guidelines for Determining the Probability of Ignition of a Released Flammable Mass. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Matias Á, Nijkamp P, Romão J, editors. Impact Assessment in Tourism Economics. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Shear J. Converging on the Self: Western Philosophy, Eastern Meditation and Scientific Research. In: Menon S, Sinha A, Sreekantan BV, editors. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Consciousness and the Self, New Delhi: Springer India; 2014, p. 41–50.

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. Why Are Off-Label Medicines Prescribed? IFLScience 2015.

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. Commercial Aviation: Structural Costs Continue to Challenge Legacy Airlines’ Financial Performance. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Heckman KA. Pedogenesis & carbon dynamics across a lithosequence under ponderosa pine. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2010.

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]

Cooper M, Pogrebin R. Foam, Armor and Nights at the Museum: Protecting Florida’s Art From Irma. New York Times 2017:A14.

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

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