How to format your references using the Eurosurveillance citation style

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

Smaglik P. California dreaming: San Diego. Nature. 2003 Mar 13;422(6928):240–1.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ogawa W, Kasuga M. Cell signaling. Fat stress and liver resistance. Science. 2008 Dec 5;322(5907):1483–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ghodbane R, Raoult D, Drancourt M. Dramatic reduction of culture time of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Sci Rep. 2014 Feb 28;4:4236.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Nogi T, Yasui N, Mihara E, Matsunaga Y, Noda M, Yamashita N, et al. Structural basis for semaphorin signalling through the plexin receptor. Nature. 2010 Oct 28;467(7319):1123–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Balakrishnan N, Koutras MV. Runs and Scans with Applications: Balakrishnan/Runs. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2001. (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics).

An edited book

Chen X, Wang Q, Luo YC, editors. Reading Development and Difficulties in Monolingual and Bilingual Chinese Children. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. XX, 252 p. 12 illus., 8 illus. in color. (Literacy Studies, Perspectives from Cognitive Neurosciences, Linguistics, Psychology and Education; vol. 8).

A chapter in an edited book

Zanzi A, Trombetta A. Discovering non-constant Conditional Functional Dependencies with Built-in Predicates. In: Decker H, Lhotská L, Link S, Spies M, Wagner RR, editors. Database and Expert Systems Applications: 25th International Conference, DEXA 2014, Munich, Germany, September 1-4, 2014 Proceedings, Part I. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 35–49. (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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 Eurosurveillance.

Blog post

Andrew E. Google Releases Stunning Underwater Street View For World Oceans Day [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/google-releases-stunning-underwater-street-view-world-oceans-day/

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. Motor Vehicle Safety: Passive Restraints Needed to Make Light Trucks Safer. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989 Nov. Report No.: RCED-90-56.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Downey SS. Resilient networks and and the historical ecology of Q’eqchi’ Maya swidden agriculture [Doctoral dissertation]. [Tucson, AZ]: University of Arizona; 2009.

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

Crow K. ... and Making a Precinct True Blue for the Viewers. New York Times. 2003 Jan 19;146.

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	Eurosurveillance
ISSN (print)	1025-496X
ISSN (online)	1560-7917
Scope