How to format your references using the Journal of Acute Disease citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Acute Disease (JAD). 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]

Artsimovitch I. Molecular biology: The tug of DNA repair. Nature 2014;505(7483):298–299.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Sun Y, Cao C. Research Funding. Demystifying central government R&D spending in China. Science 2014;345(6200):1006–1008.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Pelkmans L, Püntener D, Helenius A. Local actin polymerization and dynamin recruitment in SV40-induced internalization of caveolae. Science 2002;296(5567):535–539.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Rands MRW, Adams WM, Bennun L, Butchart SHM, Clements A, Coomes D, et al. Biodiversity conservation: challenges beyond 2010. Science 2010;329(5997):1298–1303.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Labadie N, Prins C, Prodhon C. Metaheuristics for Vehicle Routing Problems. John Wiley & Sons, Inc.: Hoboken, NJ, 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Bellemans J, Ries MD, Victor JMK (eds.). Total Knee Arthroplasty: A Guide to Get Better Performance. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Nguyen HD, Poo DCC. Automated Mobile Health: Designing a Social Reasoning Platform for Remote Health Management. In: Meiselwitz G, editor. Social Computing and Social Media: 8th International Conference, SCSM 2016, Held as Part of HCI International 2016, Toronto, ON, Canada, July 17–22, 2016. Proceedings. Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016: 34–46.

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 Journal of Acute Disease.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew D. King Coal Is Dethroned In The US – And That’s Good News For The Environment. IFLScience. 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/king-coal-is-dethroned-in-the-us-and-thats-good-news-for-the-environment/ (accessed 30 Oct 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Business Systems Modernization: Scope and Content of DOD’s Congressional Report and Executive Oversight of Investments Need to Improve. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2010.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Renteria Y. Respite services for post-adoption families transitioning from the child welfare system: A grant proposal. 2017.

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]

Kanter J, Scott M. Deal for Apple on Irish Taxes Is Ruled Illegal. New York Times. 2016;:A1.

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	Journal of Acute Disease
Abbreviation	J. Acute Dis.
ISSN (print)	2221-6189
Scope

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