How to format your references using the The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries (JIDC). 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

Blow N (2008) Stem cells: in search of common ground. Nature 451: 855–858.

A journal article with 2 authors

Zhang K-Q, Liu XY (2004) In situ observation of colloidal monolayer nucleation driven by an alternating electric field. Nature 429: 739–743.

A journal article with 3 authors

Schibler U, Ripperger JA, Brown SA (2001) Circadian rhythms. Chronobiology--reducing time. Science 293: 437–438.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Nystul TG, Goldmark JP, Padilla PA, Roth MB (2003) Suspended animation in C. elegans requires the spindle checkpoint. Science 302: 1038–1041.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Karlson B, Bria A, Lind J, Lönnqvist P, Norlin C (2005) Wireless Foresight. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

An edited book

Rau PLP, editor (2013) Cross-Cultural Design. Methods, Practice, and Case Studies: 5th International Conference, CCD 2013, Held as Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013, Proceedings, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XXVII, 548 p. 207 illus p.

A chapter in an edited book

Leonard A, Masson M, Mitchell T, Moss JM, Ufford M (2012) Data Cleansing with Data Quality Services. In Masson M, Mitchell T, Moss JM, Ufford M, editors. SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Design Patterns. Berkeley, CA: Apress. 101–122.

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 The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries.

Blog post

Taub B (2016) Humans’ Tendency To Murder Each Other May Be An Evolutionary Trait. IFLScience.

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 (2016) West Coast Ports: Better Supply Chain Information Could Improve DOT’s Freight Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Cayo P (2017) A Shifting Bottleneck Procedure with Multiple Objectives in a Complex Manufacturing Environment [Doctoral dissertation]. Edwardsville, IL: Southern Illinois University.

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

Walsh MW (2016) Puerto Rico Debt Plan Prioritizes Pensions. New York Times: B1.

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	The Journal of Infection in Developing Countries
Abbreviation	J. Infect. Dev. Ctries.
ISSN (print)	2036-6590
ISSN (online)	1972-2680
Scope	Microbiology Parasitology Virology General Medicine Infectious Diseases