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. Wisdom J. Swimming in spacetime: motion by cyclic changes in body shape. Science. 2003;299:1865–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Jazayeri M, Movshon JA. A new perceptual illusion reveals mechanisms of sensory decoding. Nature. 2007;446:912–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Micol-Ponce R, Aguilera V, Ponce MR. A genetic screen for suppressors of a hypomorphic allele of Arabidopsis ARGONAUTE1. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5533.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Höhr AIC, Lindau C, Wirth C, Qiu J, Stroud DA, Kutik S, et al. Membrane protein insertion through a mitochondrial β-barrel gate. Science. 2018;359.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Twomey B. Inside the Currency Market. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

1. Khalil I, Mantoro T, editors. Trustworthy Ubiquitous Computing. Paris: Atlantis Press; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Thimbleby H. Interaction Walkthrough: Evaluation of Safety Critical Interactive Systems. In: Doherty G, Blandford A, editors. Interactive Systems Design, Specification, and Verification: 13th International Workshop, DSVIS 2006, Dublin, Ireland, July 26-28, 2006 Revised Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007. p. 52–66.

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. Scientists Investigate A Popular Theory On The Origin Of Life [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/scientists-investigate-popular-theory-origin-life/

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. Electronic Government Act: Agencies Have Implemented Most Provisions, but Key Areas of Attention Remain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2012 Sep. Report No.: GAO-12-782.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Weitkunat S. Facies and Log Analysis of the Tuscaloosa Marine Shale [Doctoral dissertation]. [ Lafayette, LA]: University of Louisiana; 2015.

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. Koblin J. Another Williams Takes His Turn. New York Times. 2017 Jul 21;B8.

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

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