How to format your references using the Infection Prevention in Practice citation style

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

Kleinberg JM. Navigation in a small world. Nature 2000;406:845.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Coura JR, Viñas PA. Chagas disease: a new worldwide challenge. Nature 2010;465:S6-7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Kim J, Park S-M, Cho K-H. Discovery of a kernel for controlling biomolecular regulatory networks. Sci Rep 2013;3:2223.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Gross T, Siepmann A, Sturm D, Windgassen M, Scarcelli JJ, Seedorf M, et al. The DEAD-box RNA helicase Dbp5 functions in translation termination. Science 2007;315:646–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Chin DA. Water-Quality Engineering in Natural Systems. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Manolopoulos Y, Filipe J, Constantopoulos P, Cordeiro J, editors. Enterprise Information Systems: 8th International Conference, ICEIS 2006, Paphos, Cyprus, May 23-27, 2006 , Revised Selected Papers. vol. 3. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Prassas ES, Roess RP. The Costs of Transportation for Alternative Economic Analysis. In: Roess RP, editor. Engineering Economics and Finance for Transportation Infrastructure, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013, p. 73–111.

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 Infection Prevention in Practice.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Indian Woman In Her Seventies Gives Birth To First Child. IFLScience 2016.

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. NASA-Ames Research Center Should Not Have Awarded Computational Services Contract to SBA and Technology Development of California. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Gittens BE. Perceptions of the applicability of transformational leadership behavior to the leader role of academic department chairs: A study of selected universities in Virginia. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington University, 2009.

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]

Gorman J. The Power of the Bumblebee Brain. New York Times 2017:D6.

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	Infection Prevention in Practice
ISSN (print)	2590-0889
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