How to format your references using the Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses. 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	Download the output style file
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

Gladstone JC. Ultraluminous X-ray sources: Small field with a large impact. Nature 2014;514:171-172.

A journal article with 2 authors

Novikov VN, Sokolov AP. Poisson’s ratio and the fragility of glass-forming liquids. Nature 2004;431:961-963.

A journal article with 3 authors

Huber GW, Shabaker JW, Dumesic JA. Raney Ni-Sn catalyst for H2 production from biomass-derived hydrocarbons. Science 2003;300:2075-2077.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Zhu Y, Cao C, Tao S, Chu W, Wu Z, Li Y. Ultrathin nickel hydroxide and oxide nanosheets: synthesis, characterizations and excellent supercapacitor performances. Sci Rep 2014;4:5787.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Andresen R, Oades LG, Caputi P. Psychological Recovery. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

Peng H-X. Ferromagnetic Microwire Composites: From Sensors to Microwave Applications. 1st ed. 2016. (Qin F, Phan M-H, eds.). Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. XVI, 245 p. 137 illus. in color p.

A chapter in an edited book

Backlund PS, Yergey AL. Mass Spectrometry for Studying Protein Modifications and for Discovery of Protein Interactions. In: Schuck P, ed. Protein Interactions: Biophysical Approaches for the Study of Complex Reversible Systems. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007:143-167.

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 Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses.

Blog post

Andrew E. Publish Or Perish Culture Encourages Scientists To Cut Corners. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/publish-or-perish-culture-encourages-scientists-cut-corners/. Accessed 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. Unmanned Aircraft Systems: Federal Actions Needed to Ensure Safety and Expand Their Potential Uses within the National Airspace System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Wang N. Computational Studies on Biomolecular Diffusion and Electrostatics. 2015.

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

Powell K. He’s Got It From Here. New York Times. April 19, 2017:M296.

In-text citations

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

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	Influenza and Other Respiratory Viruses
Abbreviation	Influenza Other Respi. Viruses
ISSN (print)	1750-2640
ISSN (online)	1750-2659
Scope	Epidemiology Infectious Diseases Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health Pulmonary and Respiratory Medicine