How to format your references using the Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 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	Download the output style file
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

Johnson A. IBI* series winner. Radiation and atomic literacy for nonscientists. Science 2013;342:436-437.

A journal article with 2 authors

Dörr K, Herklotz A. Materials science: Two steps for a magnetoelectric switch. Nature 2014;516:337-338.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim VN, Kataoka N, Dreyfuss G. Role of the nonsense-mediated decay factor hUpf3 in the splicing-dependent exon-exon junction complex. Science 2001;293:1832-1836.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liu M, Wang L, Sun X, Zhao X. Investigating the impact of Asp181 point mutations on interactions between PTP1B and phosphotyrosine substrate. Sci Rep 2014;4:5095.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dodson B, Hammett PC, Klerx R. Probabilistic Design for Optimization and Robustness for Engineers. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

Cohen LE, ed. Growth Hormone Deficiency: Physiology and Clinical Management. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XIII, 228 p. 28 illus., 10 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Iba H, Aranha CC. Trend Analysis. In: Aranha CC, ed. Practical Applications of Evolutionary Computation to Financial Engineering: Robust Techniques for Forecasting, Trading and Hedging. Adaptation, Learning, and Optimization. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012:123-140.

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 Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.

Blog post

Andrew E. This Is The Submarine NASA’s Wants To Use To Explore Titan. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/check-out-nasa-s-conceptual-submarine-explore-titan-s-kraken-mare/. Accessed 30 October 2018.

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

Government Accountability Office. Health Information Technology: HHS Should Assess the Effectiveness of Its Efforts to Enhance Patient Access to and Use of Electronic Health Information. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Simone PS. A mixed methods study of culturally proficient practices in an elementary school. 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

Berkman S. After Harvey Is Disciplined, The Marlins Punish His Fill-In. New York Times. May 7, 2017:D3.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
Abbreviation	Influenza Other Respi. Viruses
ISSN (print)	1750-2640
ISSN (online)	1750-2659
Scope	Epidemiology Infectious Diseases Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine