How to format your references using the Journal of Disease Cause and Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Disease Cause and Control. 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]

Barnes DKA. Biodiversity: invasions by marine life on plastic debris. Nature 2002;416:808–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Labouriau R, Amorim A. Comment on “An association between the kinship and fertility of human couples.” Science 2008;322:1634; author reply 1634.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Acar M, Becskei A, van Oudenaarden A. Enhancement of cellular memory by reducing stochastic transitions. Nature 2005;435:228–32.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Bonifacie M, Jendrzejewski N, Agrinier P, Humler E, Coleman M, Javoy M. The chlorine isotope composition of Earth’s mantle. Science 2008;319:1518–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kossiakoff A, Sweet WN. Systems Engineering Principles and Practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Wille R. Towards a Design Flow for Reversible Logic. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Zentes J, Morschett D, Schramm-Klein H. Online Retailing and Multichannel Retailing. In: Morschett D, Schramm-Klein H, editors. Strategic Retail Management: Text and International Cases, Wiesbaden: Gabler Verlag; 2012, p. 71–91.

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 Journal of Disease Cause and Control.

Blog post

[1]

Taub B. Brazilian Free-Tailed Bat Is Officially The World’s Fastest Flying Creature. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/brazilian-free-tailed-bat-officially-worlds-fastest-flying-creature/ (accessed October 30, 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. Major NIH Computer System: Poor Management Resulted in Unmet Scientists’ Needs and Wasted Millions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Scott E. Effects of cultural nutritional education among Hispanic women with diabetes. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 2013.

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]

Williams J. A Nazi Script Comes to Light. New York Times 2017:C5.

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	Journal of Disease Cause and Control
Abbreviation	J. Dis. Cause Contr.
ISSN (print)	2452-2228
Scope