How to format your references using the Infectious Diseases of Poverty citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Infectious Diseases of Poverty. 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. Smaglik P. Bricks & mortar: Lancaster Environment Centre. Nature. 2004;427:270.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sanderson WC, Scherbov S. Average remaining lifetimes can increase as human populations age. Nature. 2005;435:811–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Victor DG, Gerlagh R, Baiocchi G. Climate policy. Getting serious about categorizing countries. Science. 2014;345:34–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Chan YF, Marks ME, Jones FC, Villarreal G Jr, Shapiro MD, Brady SD, et al. Adaptive evolution of pelvic reduction in sticklebacks by recurrent deletion of a Pitx1 enhancer. Science. 2010;327:302–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Ursone P. How to Calculate Options Prices and Their Greeks. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Jones JM. Pollutants Generated by the Combustion of Solid Biomass Fuels. Lea-Langton AR, Ma L, Pourkashanian M, Williams A, editors. London: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Varzi A. On Drawing Lines Across the Board. In: Zaibert L, editor. The Theory and Practice of Ontology. London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016. p. 45–78.

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 of Poverty.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Pygmy tyrannosaur stalked the ancient Arctic [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pygmy-tyrannosaur-stalked-ancient-arctic/

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. Responses to Questions on FAA’s Computer Security and Year 2000 Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998 Sep. Report No.: AIMD-98-301R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Malekian A. Combinatorial problems in online advertising [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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. Paulson M. Michael Friedman, Co-Creator of ‘Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,’ Dies at 41. New York Times. 2017 Sep 10;B7.

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 of Poverty
Abbreviation	Infect. Dis. Poverty
ISSN (online)	2049-9957
Scope