How to format your references using the Journal of Clinical Virology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Clinical Virology. 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

[1]

M. Korte, Neuroscience. Bridging the gap and staying local, Science. 324 (2009) 1527–1528.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

R. Fortey, B. Chatterton, A Devonian trilobite with an eyeshade, Science. 301 (2003) 1689.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

T.F. Jaeger, D. Pontillo, P. Graff, Comment on “Phonemic diversity supports a serial founder effect model of language expansion from Africa,” Science. 335 (2012) 1042; author reply 1042.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Y. Murakami, J.H. Yoo, D. Shindo, T. Atou, M. Kikuchi, Magnetization distribution in the mixed-phase state of hole-doped manganites, Nature. 423 (2003) 965–968.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

C.M. Chang, Service Systems Management and Engineering, John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

M.I. Slavin, ed., Sustainability in America’s Cities: Creating the Green Metropolis, Island Press/Center for Resource Economics, Washington, DC, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

H. Klingbeil, U. Laier, D. Lens, RF Cavities, in: U. Laier, D. Lens (Eds.), Theoretical Foundations of Synchrotron and Storage Ring RF Systems, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2015: pp. 173–224.

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 Clinical Virology.

Blog post

[1]

R. Andrews, Woolly Mammoths’ “Genetic Meltdown” May Have Finished Them Off, IFLScience. (2017). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/woolly-mammoths-genetic-meltdown-may-have-finished-them-off/ (accessed October 30, 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, Federal Research: Assessment of the Financial Audit for SEMATECH’s Activities in 1990, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

D.R. Plumer, The relationship between earned value management metrics and customer satisfaction, Doctoral dissertation, Northcentral University, 2010.

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]

M.P. Lowry, Fire Starter, New York Times. (2014) MM54.

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 Clinical Virology
Abbreviation	J. Clin. Virol.
ISSN (print)	1386-6532
Scope	Virology Infectious Diseases