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

Fisk Z (2009) Physics. The thermodynamics of quantum critical points. Science 325: 1348–1349.

A journal article with 2 authors

Friedman JS, Walter MA (2002) Biomedicine. Under pressure. Science 295: 983–984.

A journal article with 3 authors

Heinsohn R, Legge S, Endler JA (2005) Extreme reversed sexual dichromatism in a bird without sex role reversal. Science 309: 617–619.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Sandhu AS, Gagnon E, Santra R, Sharma V, Li W, et al. (2008) Observing the creation of electronic feshbach resonances in soft x-ray-induced O2 dissociation. Science 322: 1081–1085.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Diels J-C, Arissian L (2011) Lasers. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA.

An edited book

Martinelli LA, Howarth RW, editors (2006) Nitrogen Cycling in the Americas: Natural and Anthropogenic Influences and Controls. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands. VI, 274 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Oels A (2006) Evaluating Stakeholder Dialogues. In Stollkleemann S, Welp M, editors. Stakeholder Dialogues in Natural Resources Management: Theory and Practice. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer. 117–151.

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

Carpineti A (2017) A Brand New View Of Two Hidden Supermassive Black Holes. IFLScience. Available: https://www.iflscience.com/space/a-brand-new-view-on-two-hiding-supermassive-black-holes/. 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 (1994) Interstate Commerce Commission: Transferring ICC’s Rail Regulatory Responsibilities May Not Achieve Desired Effects. 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

Glock M (2008) Cultural futuristics: Bringing consciousness to cultural complexes and soul to scenario based planning [Doctoral dissertation]. Carpinteria, CA: Pacifica Graduate Institute.

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

Davey M, Walsh MW (2015) Pensions and Politics Fuel Crisis in Illinois. New York Times: A9.

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

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