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. Padma TV. Developing solutions. Nature. 2010;466:S16-7.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Lessard J, Sauvageau G. Bmi-1 determines the proliferative capacity of normal and leukaemic stem cells. Nature. 2003;423:255–60.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Shim SH, Duffy TS, Shen G. Stability and structure of MgSiO3 perovskite to 2300-kilometer depth in Earth’s mantle. Science. 2001;293:2437–40.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Chen Y, Yang Y, van Overbeek M, Donigian JR, Baciu P, de Lange T, et al. A shared docking motif in TRF1 and TRF2 used for differential recruitment of telomeric proteins. Science. 2008;319:1092–6.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Manuele FA. On the Practice of Safety. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

1. Hess F, Pauli S, Pohst M, editors. Algorithmic Number Theory: 7th International Symposium, ANTS-VII, Berlin, Germany, July 23-28, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Aguirre M, Baillion Y, Berruti B, Drinkwater M. Operational Oceanography and the Sentinel-3 System. In: Olla P, editor. Space Technologies for the Benefit of Human Society and Earth. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2009. p. 75–98.

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. Luntz S. Bizarre “Hybrid” Star Found. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014.

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. Loma Prieta Earthquake: Collapse of the Bay Bridge and the Cypress Viaduct. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Jun. Report No.: RCED-90-177.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mehlinger S. Fault Lines [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2012.

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. Saslow L. Roosevelt District on Mend With Acting Schools Chief. New York Times. 2007 Jul 22;LI13.

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)