How to format your references using the Papillomavirus Research citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Papillomavirus Research. 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]

L.A. Marraffini, CRISPR-Cas immunity in prokaryotes, Nature 526 (2015) 55–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

S.S. Yea, D.A. Fruman, Cell signaling. New mTOR targets Grb attention, Science 332 (2011) 1270–1271.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

E.K. Vogel, A.W. McCollough, M.G. Machizawa, Neural measures reveal individual differences in controlling access to working memory, Nature 438 (2005) 500–503.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

S. Schoch, P.E. Castillo, T. Jo, K. Mukherjee, M. Geppert, Y. Wang, F. Schmitz, R.C. Malenka, T.C. Südhof, RIM1alpha forms a protein scaffold for regulating neurotransmitter release at the active zone, Nature 415 (2002) 321–326.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

N. Pandrea, N.-D. Stănescu, Dynamics of the Rigid Solid with General Constraints by a Multibody Approach, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK, 2015.

An edited book

[1]

I. Radojevic, Embedded Systems Design Based on Formal Models of Computation, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

P. Lipinski, D. Puchala, A. Wosiak, L. Byczkowska-Lipinska, Transformer Monitoring System Taking Advantage of Hybrid Wavelet Fourier Transform, in: S. Wiak, A. Krawczyk, I. Dolezel (Eds.), Intelligent Computer Techniques in Applied Electromagnetics, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008: pp. 31–36.

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 Papillomavirus Research.

Blog post

[1]

J. O`Callaghan, Ancient Hot Spring On Mars May Contain Signs Of Past Life, IFLScience (2016). https://www.iflscience.com/space/ancient-hot-spring-on-mars-may-contain-signs-of-past-life/ (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, Transportation and Telecommunications Issue Area Plan--Fiscal Years 1995-97, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 1995.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.-H. Chin, A performer’s guide to Howard Hanson’s “Four Poems (Poèmes érotiques)”, Opus 9, Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, 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]

L. Lee, A Clean Desk, At Least For Starters, New York Times (2008) F3.

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	Papillomavirus Research
Abbreviation	Papillomavirus Res.
ISSN (print)	2405-8521
Scope