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

Hughes JD (2013) Energy: A reality check on the shale revolution. Nature 494: 307–308.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sincich LC, Horton JC (2002) Divided by cytochrome oxidase: a map of the projections from V1 to V2 in macaques. Science 295: 1734–1737.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nobes C, Lloyd A, Marsh M (2015) RETROSPECTIVE. Alan Hall (1952-2015). Science 350: 1039.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Jaramillo TF, Jørgensen KP, Bonde J, Nielsen JH, Horch S, et al. (2007) Identification of active edge sites for electrochemical H2 evolution from MoS2 nanocatalysts. Science 317: 100–102.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Studer Q (2007) Results that Last. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Yamakawa H (2016) Helical Wormlike Chains in Polymer Solutions, 2nd ed. 2016. Yoshizaki T, editor Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. XIV, 511 p. 183 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Villena JF, Schilders WHA, Miguel Silveira L (2009) Parametric Structure-Preserving Model Order Reduction. In Hasler P, Mooney V, Reis R, editors. VLSI-SoC: Advanced Topics on Systems on a Chip: A Selection of Extended Versions of the Best Papers of the Fourteenth International Conference on Very Large Scale Integration of System on Chip (VLSI-SoC2007), October 15-17, 2007, Atlanta, USA. Boston, MA: Springer US. 1–20.

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

Andrew D (2015) What Do You See - Albert Einstein Or Marilyn Monroe? IFLScience. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/which-do-you-see-albert-einstein-or-marilyn-monroe/. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office (1990) Highway Safety: Trends in Highway Fatalities 1975-1987. 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

Vespa MC (2013) System Identification and Compensation Using a Surface-Bristle Deflection Model [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

Sisario B (2017) On Adele’s Big Night, She Lauds Beyoncé. New York Times: C1.

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