How to format your references using the Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases. 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

Tanner KE. Materials science. Small but extremely tough. Science 2012 8;336:1237–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Miguel M-C, Zapperi S. Materials science. Fluctuations in plasticity at the microscale. Science 2006 26;312:1149–50.

A journal article with 3 authors

Raymond SN, Mandell AM, Sigurdsson S. Exotic Earths: forming habitable worlds with giant planet migration. Science 2006 8;313:1413–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Ling H, Boudsocq F, Plosky BS, Woodgate R, Yang W. Replication of a cis-syn thymine dimer at atomic resolution. Nature 2003 28;424:1083–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

El-Rewini H, Abd-El-Barr M. Advanced Computer Architecture and Parallel Processing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

Ebert C, Jäger G, Michaelis J, editors. The Mathematics of Language: 10th and 11th Biennial Conference, MOL 10, Los Angeles, CA, USA, July 28-30, 2007, and MOL 11, Bielefeld, Germany, August 20-21, 2009, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Watanabe Y, Yoshihama S, Mishina T, Kudo M, Maruyama H. Bridging the Gap Between Inter-communication Boundary and Internal Trusted Components. In: Gollmann D, Meier J, Sabelfeld A, editors. Computer Security – ESORICS 2006: 11th European Symposium on Research in Computer Security, Hamburg, Germany, September 18-20, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006. p. 65–80.

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 Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Blog post

Davis J. Pinching Figs Could Help Explain The Origin Of Our Fine Motor Skills [Internet]. IFLScience 2016 25 [cited 2018 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/pinching-figs-could-help-explain-origin-our-fine-motor-skills/

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

Government Accountability Office. FAA’s Preboard Passenger Screening Process. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1987.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Naik M. Automating the process of antibiotic susceptibility testing. 2017;

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

Hodara S. Joyful Puzzles of Home and Transition. New York Times 2015 3;WE9.

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	Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Abbreviation	Scand. J. Infect. Dis.
ISSN (print)	0036-5548
ISSN (online)	1651-1980
Scope	General Immunology and Microbiology General Medicine Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)