How to format your references using the Infectious Agents and Cancer citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Infectious Agents and Cancer. 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. Rowley JD. Genetics. A story of swapped ends. Science. 2013;340:1412–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. O’Connor PM, Claessens LPAM. Basic avian pulmonary design and flow-through ventilation in non-avian theropod dinosaurs. Nature. 2005;436:253–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Zhao J, Murray S, Lipuma JJ. Modeling the impact of antibiotic exposure on human microbiota. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4345.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Taylor SM, Antonia AL, Parobek CM, Juliano JJ, Janko M, Emch M, et al. Plasmodium falciparum sulfadoxine resistance is geographically and genetically clustered within the DR Congo. Sci Rep. 2013;3:1165.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Crichton RR, Ward RJ. Metal-based Neurodegeneration. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2006.

An edited book

1. Fox PF. Dairy Chemistry and Biochemistry. 2nd ed. 2015. Uniacke-Lowe T, McSweeney PLH, O’Mahony JA, editors. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Chruszcz-Lipska K, Blanch EW. Raman Optical Activity of Biological Samples. In: Baranska M, editor. Optical Spectroscopy and Computational Methods in Biology and Medicine. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014. p. 61–81.

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 Infectious Agents and Cancer.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Can You Flush A Toilet With Liquid Mercury? Kind Of [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/chemistry/can-you-flush-a-toilet-with-liquid-mercury-kind-of/. 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. Pipeline Safety: Preliminary Information on the Office of Pipeline Safety’s Actions to Strengthen Its Enforcement Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2004 Jul. Report No.: GAO-04-985T.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Sherwin PR. The disconnection between high school and college: A study of retention of students who are at risk of leaving college before completing a degree [Doctoral dissertation]. [ St. Charles, MO]: Lindenwood 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. Miller SK. Being ‘Partly Jewish.’ New York Times. 2013 Nov 1;A31.

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	Infectious Agents and Cancer
Abbreviation	Infect. Agent. Cancer
ISSN (online)	1750-9378
Scope	Cancer Research Epidemiology Infectious Diseases Oncology