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

Sage L. Exoplanets. Nature 2014;513:327.

A journal article with 2 authors

Rice WR, Chippindale AK. Sexual recombination and the power of natural selection. Science 2001;294:555-559.

A journal article with 3 authors

Khor B, Gardet A, Xavier RJ. Genetics and pathogenesis of inflammatory bowel disease. Nature 2011;474:307-317.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Piva PG, DiLabio GA, Pitters JL, et al. Field regulation of single-molecule conductivity by a charged surface atom. Nature 2005;435:658-661.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kwartler T. Text Mining in Practice with R. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2017.

An edited book

Srivastava PK, Mukherjee S, Gupta M, Islam T, eds. Remote Sensing Applications in Environmental Research. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. XVI, 212 p. 80 illus., 66 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Giorgetti A, Girgenti A, Citti P, Delogu M. A Novel Approach for Axiomatic-Based Design for the Environment. In: Farid AM, Suh NP, eds. Axiomatic Design in Large Systems: Complex Products, Buildings and Manufacturing Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016:131-148.

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

Andrews R. Something Just Put A Dent In One Of Saturn’s Rings. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/something-just-put-a-dent-in-one-of-saturns-rings/. 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. Analysis of NASA’s Supplemental FY 1979 Budget Request. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1979.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Tarar WA. A New Finite Element Procedure for Fatigue Life Predictionand High Strain Rate Assessment of Cold Worked Advanced High Strength Steel. 2008.

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

Luongo MT. Capturing A City at War With Itself. New York Times. August 13, 2017:C1.

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