How to format your references using the World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases. 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

Elert E. Calling cells to arms. Nature 2013; 504: S2-3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Schmiedmayer J, Berges J. Physics. Cold atom cosmology. Science 2013; 341: 1188–1189.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dunningham J, Rau A, Burnett K. From pedigree cats to fluffy-bunnies. Science 2005; 307: 872–875.

A journal article with 100 or more authors

Gilbert DA, Zimanyi GT, Dumas RK, Winklhofer M, Gomez A, Eibagi N, Vicent JL, Liu K. Quantitative decoding of interactions in tunable nanomagnet arrays using first order reversal curves. Sci Rep 2014; 4: 4204.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Laycock J, Meeran K. Integrated Endocrinology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

An edited book

Clarkson DB. S+ Functional Data Analysis: User’s Manual for Windows®. New York, NY: Springer

A chapter in an edited book

Boger DL. Inhibitors of Fatty Acid Amide Hydrolase. In: Shibasaki M, Iino M, Osada H, editors. Chembiomolecular Science: At the Frontier of Chemistry and Biology. Tokyo: Springer Japan, 2013: 37–49.

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 World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases.

Blog post

Fang J. The Sharp-Shooting Skills of Archerfish Were Driven by Competition. IFLScience. 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/sharp-shooting-skills-archerfish-were-driven-competition/

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. Highway Research: DOT’s Actions to Implement Best Practices for Setting Research Agendas and Evaluating Outcomes. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Khatib E. A phenomenological study on the potential impact of implementing information systems in midsize corporations. 2010.

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

Saslow L. Jets Overhead, Noise Complaints Below. New York Times. 2006; : LI2.

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	World Journal of Clinical Infectious Diseases
ISSN (online)	2220-3176
Scope