How to format your references using the Current Infectious Disease Reports citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Current Infectious Disease 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. Carucci D. Know thine enemy. Nature. 2004;430:944–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Parson EA, Keith DW. Science and regulation. End the deadlock on governance of geoengineering research. Science. 2013;339:1278–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Dominguez P, Jacobson AG, Jefferies RPS. Paired gill slits in a fossil with a calcite skeleton. Nature. 2002;417:841–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Schurig D, Mock JJ, Justice BJ, Cummer SA, Pendry JB, Starr AF, et al. Metamaterial electromagnetic cloak at microwave frequencies. Science. 2006;314:977–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Brendel R. Thin-Film Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2005.

An edited book

1. Ábrahám E, Havelund K, editors. Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems: 20th International Conference, TACAS 2014, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2014, Grenoble, France, April 5-13, 2014. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Humby T, Wilkinson L. If Only They Could Talk. In: Fisch GS, Flint J, editors. Transgenic and Knockout Models of Neuropsychiatric Disorders. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2006. p. 69–83.

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 Infectious Disease Reports.

Blog post

1. Hale T. “Exercise In A Pill” Makes Mice Run For 70 Percent Longer [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/exercise-in-a-pill-makes-mice-run-for-70-percent-longer/. 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. National Aeronautics and Space Administration: Significant Actions Needed to Address Long-standing Financial Management Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 May. Report No.: GAO-04-754T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Himschoot AR. Student perception of relevance of biology content to everyday life: A study in higher education biology courses [Doctoral dissertation]. [Minneapolis, MN]: Capella University; 2012.

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. MONICA KELLY; Monica Kelly lives in Larchmont. Three Crows Cause a Neighbor to Take Flights of Fancy. New York Times. 1988 Mar 27;12WC32.

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 Infectious Disease Reports
Abbreviation	Curr. Infect. Dis. Rep.
ISSN (print)	1523-3847
ISSN (online)	1534-3146
Scope	Infectious Diseases