How to format your references using the Journal of Disease Cause and Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Disease Cause and Control. 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]

Watzman H. Software spend boosts Israeli R&D. Nature 2000;405:603.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Zuber MT, Garrick-Bethell I. Planetary science. What do we need to know to land on the Moon again? Science 2005;310:983–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Robertson WH, Diken EG, Johnson MA. Chemistry. Snapshots of water at work. Science 2003;301:320–1.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

He Y, Ye T, Su M, Zhang C, Ribbe AE, Jiang W, et al. Hierarchical self-assembly of DNA into symmetric supramolecular polyhedra. Nature 2008;452:198–201.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Meyr H, Moeneclaey M, Fechtel SA. Digital Communication Receivers: Synchronization, Channel Estimation, and Signal Processing. New York, USA: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2001.

An edited book

[1]

Monma T, Goto I, Hayashi T, Tachiya H, Ohsawa K, editors. Agricultural and Forestry Reconstruction After the Great East Japan Earthquake: Tsunami, Radioactive, and Reputational Damages. 1st ed. 2015. Tokyo: Springer Japan; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yang F. Rethinking Commercial Nationalism: The ‘Chinese Dream’ in Neoliberal Globalization. In: Volcic Z, Andrejevic M, editors. Commercial Nationalism: Selling the Nation and Nationalizing the Sell, London: Palgrave Macmillan UK; 2016, p. 65–85.

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 Disease Cause and Control.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Genetic Map Of Mutations That Lead To Breast Cancer Unveiled. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/most-complete-genetic-map-mutations-which-lead-breast-cancer/ (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. Aviation Safety: Undeclared Air Shipments of Dangerous Goods and DOT’s Enforcement Approach. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Accortt EE. Frontal alpha electroencephalography (EEG) asymmetry as a risk factor for pre-menstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD); a psychophysiological and family history approach. Doctoral dissertation. University of Arizona, 2009.

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]

Paulson M. Michael Friedman, Co-Creator of ‘Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,’ Dies at 41. New York Times 2017:B7.

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 Disease Cause and Control
Abbreviation	J. Dis. Cause Contr.
ISSN (print)	2452-2228
Scope