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]

D. Mortlock, Astronomy: The age of the quasars, Nature 514 (2014) 43–44.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

A. Gal-Yam, D.C. Leonard, A massive hypergiant star as the progenitor of the supernova SN 2005gl, Nature 458 (2009) 865–867.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

S.M. Cerritelli, H. Chon, R.J. Crouch, Molecular biology. A new twist for topoisomerase, Science 332 (2011) 1510–1511.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

B.I. McNeil, R.J. Matear, R.M. Key, J.L. Bullister, J.L. Sarmiento, Anthropogenic CO2 uptake by the ocean based on the global chlorofluorocarbon data set, Science 299 (2003) 235–239.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

G. Rombach, Spannbetonbau, Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH, D-69451 Weinheim, Germany, 2010.

An edited book

[1]

R. Liang, ed., Biomedical Optical Imaging Technologies: Design and Applications, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2013.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

D. Matanović, M. Čikeš, B. Moslavac, Frac-and-Pack Completion, in: M. Cikes, B. Moslavac (Eds.), Sand Control in Well Construction and Operation, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012: pp. 95–150.

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]

E. Andrew, Spot The Snake Oil: Telling Good Cancer Research From Bad, IFLScience (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/spot-snake-oil-telling-good-cancer-research-bad/ (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, Year 2000 Computing Crisis: Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation’s Efforts to Ensure Bank Systems Are Year 2000 Compliant, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S. Ravilla, Correlation between diabetes and periodontitis, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

L. Hirshman, Off to Work She Should Go, New York Times (2007) A27.

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