Citing the ICTV Taxonomy

There are several ways that the ICTV taxonomy can be cited. The following should 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. For the most recent taxonomy release, you can use the following Archives of Virology manuscript:
    Walker PJ, Siddell SG, Lefkowitz EJ, Mushegian AR, Adriaenssens EM, Alfenas-Zerbini P, Dempsey DM, Dutilh BE, García ML, Curtis Hendrickson R, Junglen S, Krupovic M, Kuhn JH, Lambert AJ, Łobocka M, Oksanen HM, Orton RJ, Robertson DL, Rubino L, Sabanadzovic S, Simmonds P, Smith DB, Suzuki N, Van Doorslaer K, Vandamme AM, Varsani A, Zerbini FM. Recent changes to virus taxonomy ratified by the International Committee on Taxonomy of Viruses (2022). Arch Virol. 2022 Aug 23. doi: 10.1007/s00705-022-05516-5. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35999326.