Citing the ICTV Taxonomy

There are several ways that the ICTV taxonomy can be cited. The following may be the most useful:

  1. Direct citations of the web site “International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV): https://ictv.global/taxonomy/”
  2. Citation of the ICTV Database using our manuscript in Nucleic Acids Research: 
    "Virus taxonomy: the database of the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (ICTV)". Lefkowitz EJ, Dempsey DM, Hendrickson RC, Orton RJ, Siddell SG, Smith DB. Nucleic Acids Res. 2017 Oct 13. PubMed PMID: 29040670.
  3. ICTV Report Chapters (https://ictv.global/report) will have a corresponding Report profile published in the Journal of General Virology. These are cited at the beginning of the chapter, and can be accessed from the JGV ICTV Virus Taxonomy Profiles web page.
  4. For the most recent taxonomy release, you can cite one of the ICTV Virus Taxonomy Summaries published in JGV that summarize the latest taxonomic changes.