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]

A. Smith, Cell biology: Potency unchained, Nature. 505 (2014) 622–623.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

B.D. Berkovits, C. Mayr, Alternative 3’ UTRs act as scaffolds to regulate membrane protein localization, Nature. 522 (2015) 363–367.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

P. Vannucchi, F. Remitti, G. Bettelli, Geological record of fluid flow and seismogenesis along an erosive subducting plate boundary, Nature. 451 (2008) 699–703.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

U. Nath, B.C.W. Crawford, R. Carpenter, E. Coen, Genetic control of surface curvature, Science. 299 (2003) 1404–1407.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

A. Colin, Fixed Income Attribution, John Wiley & Sons Ltd, Oxford, UK, 2005.

An edited book

[1]

F. Nack, A.S. Gordon, eds., Interactive Storytelling: 9th International Conference on Interactive Digital Storytelling, ICIDS 2016, Los Angeles, CA, USA, November 15–18, 2016, Proceedings, Springer International Publishing, Cham, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

F. Bouchard, Moving beyond the influence of molecular genetics on the debate about reductionism in philosophy of biology, in: A. Fagot-Largeault, S. Rahman, J.M. Torres (Eds.), The Influence of Genetics on Contemporary Thinking, Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 2007: pp. 63–80.

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]

D. Andrew, Two-Headed Cobra Found In China, IFLScience. (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/two-headed-cobra-found-china/ (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, Older Driver Safety: Knowledge Sharing Should Help States Prepare for Increase in Older Driver Population, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, 2007.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

S.I. Gimbel, Imaging frontal and medial temporal lobe interaction during memory retrieval and disentangling the effects of the default network, Doctoral dissertation, University of California San Diego, 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]

J.M. Glionna, A Vietnam-Era Deserter Hopes to Rally a New Antiwar Generation, New York Times. (2016) A13.

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