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

Mogi K. Cognitive factors correlating with the metacognition of the phenomenal properties of experience. Sci Rep 2013;3:3354.

A journal article with 2 authors

McLean PF, Cooley L. Protein equilibration through somatic ring canals in Drosophila. Science 2013;340:1445-1447.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bates ME, Simmons JA, Zorikov TV. Bats use echo harmonic structure to distinguish their targets from background clutter. Science 2011;333:627-630.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

He W, Ladinsky MS, Huey-Tubman KE, Jensen GJ, McIntosh JR, Björkman PJ. FcRn-mediated antibody transport across epithelial cells revealed by electron tomography. Nature 2008;455:542-546.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sheldrake AL. Handbook of Electrical Engineering. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Jhala R, Bosschere KD, eds. Compiler Construction: 22nd International Conference, CC 2013, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2013, Rome, Italy, March 16-24, 2013. Proceedings. Vol 7791. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. XVIII, 265 p. 96 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Sullivan P, Clarke D, Clarke B. Using Mathematical Tasks Arising from Contexts. In: Clarke D, Clarke B, eds. Teaching with Tasks for Effective Mathematics Learning. New York, NY: Springer; 2013:39-56.

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

Carpineti A. How Many Of The Technologies Depicted In Star Trek Are Now Scientifically Possible? Available at https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/how-many-of-the-technologies-depicted-in-star-trek-are-now-scientifically-possible/. 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. FTS 2000: An Overview of the Federal Government’s New Telecommunications System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Younis KM. The impact of moral values on ethical practices in environmental management. 2013.

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

Lee L. Almost Ready to Fly. New York Times. March 1, 2012: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

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