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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases (BJID). 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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Krause DW. Fossil molar from a Madagascan marsupial. Nature. 2001;412(6846):497–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Sun Y., Cao C. Research Funding. Demystifying central government R&D spending in China. Science. 2014;345(6200):1006–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Nudleman E., Wall D., Kaiser D. Cell-to-cell transfer of bacterial outer membrane lipoproteins. Science. 2005;309(5731):125–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Liu Y., Latremoliere A., Li X., et al. Touch and tactile neuropathic pain sensitivity are set by corticospinal projections. Nature. 2018;561(7724):547–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Smirnov BM. Fundamentals of Ionized Gases. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2011.

An edited book

Kirchner B. Ionic Liquids. vol. 290. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Neugebauer J., Magenheim J., Ohrndorf L., Schaper N., Schubert S. Defining Proficiency Levels of High School Students in Computer Science by an Empirical Task Analysis Results of the MoKoM Project. In: Brodnik A, Vahrenhold J, editors. Informatics in Schools. Curricula, Competences, and Competitions: 8th International Conference on Informatics in Schools: Situation, Evolution, and Perspectives, ISSEP 2015, Ljubljana, Slovenia, September 28 - October 1, 2015, Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. p. 45–56.

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 Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. Sorry Everyone, That Alien Signal Was Probably Just A “Terrestrial Disturbance.” IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/space/sorry-everyone-that-alien-signal-was-probably-just-a-terrestrial-disturbance/ [accessed October 30, 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. NASA: Actions Needed to Improve Transparency and Assess Long-Term Affordability of Human Exploration Programs. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2014.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Flynn MJ. Lifeguard employability skills. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 2013.

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

Brantley B. Theater; The Terrain Where Generations Meet. New York Times. 2017:AR4.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases
Abbreviation	Braz. J. Infect. Dis.
ISSN (print)	1413-8670
ISSN (online)	1678-4391
Scope