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

Gottfried K. Inferring the statistical interpretation of quantum mechanics from the classical limit. Nature 2000 1;405:533–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Veronin MA, Youan B-BC. Medicine. Magic bullet gone astray: medications and the Internet. Science 2004 23;305:481.

A journal article with 3 authors

Korobova F, Ramabhadran V, Higgs HN. An actin-dependent step in mitochondrial fission mediated by the ER-associated formin INF2. Science 2013 25;339:464–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Dong C-D, Chen C-W, Chen C-F, Hung C-M. Platinum particles supported on mesoporous carbons: fabrication and electrocatalytic performance in methanol-tolerant oxygen-reduction reactions. Sci. Rep. 2014 29;4:5790.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Pearson D, Grace C. Weight Management. West Sussex, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd,.; 2012.

An edited book

Shah VP, Maibach HI, Jenner J, editors. Topical Drug Bioavailability, Bioequivalence, and Penetration. 2nd ed. 2014. New York, NY: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Borretti C, Degrace J-N, Cova P. The French Vigilance System. Contributing to the Reduction of Disaster Risks in France. In: Golnaraghi M, editor. Institutional Partnerships in Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems: A Compilation of Seven National Good Practices and Guiding Principles. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. p. 63–93.

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

Andrew E. Our Stone Tool Discovery Pushes Back The Archaeological Record By 700,000 Years [Internet]. IFLScience 2015 21 [cited 2018 30];Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/our-stone-tool-discovery-pushes-back-archaeological-record-700000-years/

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. SSA Initiatives to Identify Coaching. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beasley CA. Investigations of redox-labeled silica and gold nanoparticles in solution and as films on electrodes. 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

Ortved J. Trading a T Square for Showbiz. New York Times 2016 4;D2.

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)