How to format your references using the Forum on Immunopathological Diseases and Therapeutics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Forum on Immunopathological Diseases and Therapeutics (FIDT). 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

Konecky B. Palaeoclimate: Monsoon matters. Nature. 2015 Jan 22;517(7535):445–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

Furusawa C, Kaneko K. A dynamical-systems view of stem cell biology. Science. 2012 Oct 12;338(6104):215–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Xu X, Zheng X, You H. Exceptional dinosaur fossils show ontogenetic development of early feathers. Nature. 2010 Apr 29;464(7293):1338–41.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

He RH, Hashimoto M, Karapetyan H, Koralek JD, Hinton JP, Testaud JP, et al. From a single-band metal to a high-temperature superconductor via two thermal phase transitions. Science. 2011 Mar 25;331(6024):1579–83.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Dal Pont JP, Azzaro-Pantel C. New Approaches to the Process Industries. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Hazzan O. Agile Anywhere: Essays on Agile Projects and Beyond. Dubinsky Y, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. VII, 72 p. 5 illus. (SpringerBriefs in Computer Science).

A chapter in an edited book

Motreanu D, Motreanu VV, Papageorgiou N. Variational Principles and Critical Point Theory. In: Motreanu VV, Papageorgiou N, editors. Topological and Variational Methods with Applications to Nonlinear Boundary Value Problems. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 97–139.

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 Forum on Immunopathological Diseases and Therapeutics.

Blog post

Andrews R. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. The Pacific’s Floating “Plastic Continents” Will Soon Wash Up On Our Shorelines. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/pacifics-floating-plastic-continents-wash-shorelines/

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. Follow-up Review of the IR Maverick Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1983 May. Report No.: 931116.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Monforton C. Evaluation of the impact of a mandatory safety training regulation on occupational injury and fatality rates among U.S. stone, sand and gravel miners [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2008.

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

Crawford S. The Wire Next Time. New York Times. 2014 Apr 28;A21.

In-text citations

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

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	Forum on Immunopathological Diseases and Therapeutics
ISSN (print)	2151-8017
ISSN (online)	2151-8025
Scope