How to format your references using the Infectious Agents and Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Infectious Agents and Cancer. 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. Owens B. Obesity: heavy sleepers. Nature. 2013;497:S8-9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Armbrust EV, Palumbi SR. Marine biology. Uncovering hidden worlds of ocean biodiversity. Science. 2015;348:865–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Wu B, Chen J, Singer RH. Background free imaging of single mRNAs in live cells using split fluorescent proteins. Sci Rep. 2014;4:3615.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Pah AR, Guimerà R, Mustoe AM, Amaral LAN. Use of a global metabolic network to curate organismal metabolic networks. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1695.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Murray B. The Possibility of Culture. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

1. Hofmann-Wellenhof B. Physical Geodesy. Moritz H, editor. Vienna: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Koprić I. Independent Local Lists in Croatia: In Search for a Composite Theoretical Frame. In: Reiser M, Holtmann E, editors. Farewell to the Party Model?: Independent Local Lists in East and West European Countries. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften; 2008. p. 39–61.

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 Infectious Agents and Cancer.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Animals Could Help Reveal Why Humans Fall For Illusions. IFLScience. 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. Federal Research: Preliminary Information on the Small Business Technology Transfer Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996 Jan. Report No.: RCED-96-19.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tubbs MA. The use of hand-constructed graphs in Microcomputer-Based Laboratories for kinematics instruction [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: 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. Belson K. Olympic Ideal Takes Beating In Badminton. New York Times. 2012 Aug 1;A1.

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	Infectious Agents and Cancer
Abbreviation	Infect. Agent. Cancer
ISSN (online)	1750-9378
Scope	Cancer Research Epidemiology Infectious Diseases Oncology