How to format your references using the Current Fungal Infection Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Fungal Infection 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. Goldston D. A word in the right place. Nature. 2007;445:698.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Colavita A, Tessier-Lavigne M. A Neurexin-related protein, BAM-2, terminates axonal branches in C. elegans. Science. 2003;302:293–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lane M, Robker RL, Robertson SA. Parenting from before conception. Science. 2014;345:756–60.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Breyton C, Haase W, Rapoport TA, Kühlbrandt W, Collinson I. Three-dimensional structure of the bacterial protein-translocation complex SecYEG. Nature. 2002;418:662–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Omura Y, Mallik A, Matsuo N. MOS Devices for Low-Voltage and Low-Energy Applications. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

1. Poets CF. Controversies around treatment of the open duct. Franz A, Koehne P, editors. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Stellrecht E, Han B, Pecht M. Characterization of Hygroscopic Deformations by Moiré Interferometry. In: Fan XJ, Suhir E, editors. Moisture Sensitivity of Plastic Packages of IC Devices. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2010. p. 113–30.

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 Fungal Infection Reports.

Blog post

1. Fang J. Cheap Solar Cells Made From Shrimp Cells [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/shrimp-shells-solar-cells/. 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. Month In Review, April 1999: Reports, Testimony, Correspondence, and Other Publications. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 May. Report No.: OPA-99-7.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Rodriguez EP. Curriculum development for nursing assistants: Pressure ulcer prevention module [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2014.

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. Gustines GG. Robert Kirkman Plans New Comic Book Series. New York Times. 2017 Oct 5;C3.

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 Fungal Infection Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Fungal Infect. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1936-3761
ISSN (online)	1936-377X
Scope	Infectious Diseases