How to format your references using the Infectious Disease Clinics of North America citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Infectious Disease Clinics of North America (IDC). 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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteDownload the output style file
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX syles 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.
Goldberg DE. Parasitology. When the host is smarter than the parasite. Science 2002;296(5567):482–3.
A journal article with 2 authors
1.
Yuan H., Romanowicz B. Lithospheric layering in the North American craton. Nature 2010;466(7310):1063–8.
A journal article with 3 authors
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Tomoyasu Y., Wheeler SR., Denell RE. Ultrabithorax is required for membranous wing identity in the beetle Tribolium castaneum. Nature 2005;433(7026):643–7.
A journal article with 4 or more authors
1.
Loose M., Fischer-Friedrich E., Ries J., et al. Spatial regulators for bacterial cell division self-organize into surface waves in vitro. Science 2008;320(5877):789–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
1.
Hitz CB., Ewing J., Hecht J. Introduction to Laser Technology. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2012.
An edited book
1.
Nijkamp FP., Parnham MJ. Principles of Immunopharmacology. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2005.
A chapter in an edited book
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Freudenburg WR., Gramling R., Laska S., et al. The Growth Machine Comes to New Orleans. In: Gramling R, Laska S, and Erikson KT, editors. Catastrophe in the Making: The Engineering of Katrina and the Disasters of Tomorrow. Washington, DC: Island Press/Center for Resource Economics; 2012. p. 55–66.

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 Disease Clinics of North America.

Blog post
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Hale T. Don’t Believe Your Eyes, These Strawberries Are Not Red. IFLScience. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/dont-beleive-your-eyes-these-strawberries-are-not-red/. 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. FAA Appropriation Issues. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation
1.
Tripputi MT. Use of mediation in designing clinical trials with two primary endpoints. Doctoral dissertation, George Washington University, Washington, DC, 2009.

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.
Baker L. Bridge Plan Rattles Seattle Enclave. New York Times 2006:1111.

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 titleInfectious Disease Clinics of North America
AbbreviationInfect. Dis. Clin. North Am.
ISSN (print)0891-5520
ISSN (online)1557-9824
ScopeInfectious Diseases
Microbiology (medical)

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