How to format your references using the Infectious Diseases and Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Infectious Diseases and Therapy. 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. Grützmacher H. CHEMISTRY: New Chemical Bricks Made Through Phosphorus Tricks. Science. 2000;289:737–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Evan GI, Vousden KH. Proliferation, cell cycle and apoptosis in cancer. Nature. 2001;411:342–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Gneezy U, Keenan EA, Gneezy A. Behavioral economics. Avoiding overhead aversion in charity. Science. 2014;346:632–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Lummis SCR, Beene DL, Lee LW, Lester HA, Broadhurst RW, Dougherty DA. Cis-trans isomerization at a proline opens the pore of a neurotransmitter-gated ion channel. Nature. 2005;438:248–52.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hornberg A. Handbook of Machine and Computer Vision. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2017.

An edited book

1. Taber KS, editor. Progressing Science Education: Constructing the Scientific Research Programme into the Contingent Nature of Learning Science. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Andersson D, Gurvich V, Hansen TD. On Acyclicity of Games with Cycles. In: Goldberg AV, Zhou Y, editors. Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management: 5th International Conference, AAIM 2009, San Francisco, CA, USA, June 15-17, 2009 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009. p. 15–28.

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 Diseases and Therapy.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Bushbaby-Inspired Robot Can Do Parkour Flips Off Vertical Walls [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/bushbabyinspired-robot-can-do-parkour-flips-off-vertical-walls/

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. [Comments on Responsibility for Peacetime Administration of Ready Reserve Fleet]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988 Mar. Report No.: B-229174.2.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Tegtmeier T. Science-related attitudes of urban middle school students [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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. Greenhouse L. Justices Scrutinize Death Penalty in Texas. New York Times. 2007 Jan 18;A16.

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 Diseases and Therapy
Abbreviation	Infect. Dis. Ther.
ISSN (print)	2193-8229
ISSN (online)	2193-6382
Scope	Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)