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]

Tishkoff S. GENETICS. Strength in small numbers. Science 2015;349:1282–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chen J-Y, Huang D-Y. A possible Lower Cambrian chaetognath (arrow worm). Science 2002;298:187.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Furey ML, Pietrini P, Haxby JV. Cholinergic enhancement and increased selectivity of perceptual processing during working memory. Science 2000;290:2315–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Todo Y, Kitazato H, Hashimoto J, Gooday AJ. Simple foraminifera flourish at the ocean’s deepest point. Science 2005;307:689.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Bakker J, Clarke RJ. Wine Flavour Chemistry. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

[1]

Vicars M, McKenna T, White J, editors. Discourse, Power, and Resistance Down Under. vol. 88. Rotterdam: SensePublishers; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dreżewski R, Woźniak P, Siwik L. Agent-Based Evolutionary System for Traveling Salesman Problem. In: Corchado E, Wu X, Oja E, Herrero Á, Baruque B, editors. Hybrid Artificial Intelligence Systems: 4th International Conference, HAIS 2009, Salamanca, Spain, June 10-12, 2009. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 34–41.

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]

Luntz S. Graphic Shows The Size Of Rosetta’s Comet. IFLScience 2014. https://www.iflscience.com/space/graphic-shows-size-rosettas-comet/ (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. U.S. Telecommunications Policy: Demand Dictates Supply. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Wilson ML. The Power of Spoken Word: Oral History As Social Work Pedagogy. 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]

Kishkovsky S. In Blast Police Call Accident, Muscovites See Terrorist Hand. New York Times 2002:A8.

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