How to format your references using the Current Epidemiology Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Epidemiology Reports. 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

1. Quéré Y. Retrospective. Georges Charpak (1924-2010). Science. 2010;330:604.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Hoffman KA, Singer BS. Magnetic source separation in Earth’s outer core. Science. 2008;321:1800.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Cira NJ, Benusiglio A, Prakash M. Vapour-mediated sensing and motility in two-component droplets. Nature. 2015;519:446–50.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Grafton RQ, Williams J, Perry CJ, Molle F, Ringler C, Steduto P, et al. The paradox of irrigation efficiency. Science. 2018;361:748–50.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Mackenzie B, Njikizana T, Coetsee D, Chamboko R, Colyvas B, Hanekom B, et al. 2014 Interpretation and Application of International Financial Reporting Standards. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2014.

An edited book

1. Stanczak S. Fundamentals of Resource Allocation in Wireless Networks: Theory and Algorithms. Wiczanowski M, Boche H, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2008.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Eades A, Deal A, Bhattacharyya A, Hooghan T. Energy Filtering in EBSD. In: Schwartz AJ, Kumar M, Adams BL, Field DP, editors. Electron Backscatter Diffraction in Materials Science. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2009. p. 53–63.

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 Current Epidemiology Reports.

Blog post

1. Carpineti A. Astronomers Spot Whirlwinds Shooting Out From A Young Star [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/space/astronomers-spot-whirlwinds-shooting-out-from-a-young-star/. Accessed 30 Oct 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

1. Government Accountability Office. Railroad Safety: DOT Should Better Manage Its Hazardous Materials Inspection Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Nov. Report No.: RCED-90-43.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Mande M. Sisyphus’s Fault: How the Shifting Terrain of a Changing Institution Makes Curriculum Reform an “Impossible Task” [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2017.

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

1. Walsh MW, Zezima K. Small City, Big Debt Problems. New York Times. 2011 Aug 2;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	Current Epidemiology Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Epidemiol. Rep.
ISSN (online)	2196-2995
Scope