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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Clinical 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	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

Grebe M. Plant biology. Enhanced: growth by auxin: when a weed needs acid. Science 2005; 310: 60–61.

A journal article with 2 authors

Brittain SD, Rettig TW. CO and H(3)(+) in the protoplanetary disk around the star HD141569. Nature 2002; 418: 57–59.

A journal article with 3 authors

Evaristo J, Jasechko S, McDonnell JJ. Global separation of plant transpiration from groundwater and streamflow. Nature 2015; 525: 91–94.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Ashworth J, Havranek JJ, Duarte CM, Sussman D, Monnat RJ Jr, Stoddard BL, Baker D. Computational redesign of endonuclease DNA binding and cleavage specificity. Nature 2006; 441: 656–659.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Kelsey JE, Newport DJ, Nemeroff CB. Principles of Psychopharmacology for Mental Health Professionals. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Pan Z, Cheok AD, Müller W, Chang M (eds). Transactions on Edutainment III. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Tosi A, Olier I, Vellido A. Probability Ridges and Distortion Flows: Visualizing Multivariate Time Series Using a Variational Bayesian Manifold Learning Method. In: Villmann T, Schleif F-M, Kaden M, Lange M, editors. Advances in Self-Organizing Maps and Learning Vector Quantization: Proceedings of the 10th International Workshop, WSOM 2014, Mittweida, Germany, July, 2-4, 2014. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2014: 55–64.

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 World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Blog post

Andrew E. Tarantula Molting: Surprisingly Not Terrifying. IFLScience. 2014. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/tarantula-molting-surprisingly-not-terrifying/

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. National Airspace System: Better Cost Data Could Improve FAA’s Management of the Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System. 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

Hammamy R. “Promoting responsible action in medical emergencies”: Determining the impact of a new University of Maryland alcohol protocol. 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

Kelly K. A Top Goldman Veteran Gets Trump’s Attention on Jobs, Taxes and More. New York Times. 2017; : A13.

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	World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases
ISSN (online)	2220-3176
Scope