How to format your references using the American Journal of Infection Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of Infection 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	Download the output style file
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

Kaufman AJ. Geology. The calibration of Ediacaran time. Science. 2005 Apr 1;308(5718):59–60.

A journal article with 2 authors

Cook-Andersen H, Wilkinson MF. Molecular biology: Splicing does the two-step. Nature. 2015 May 21;521(7552):300–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

Fortin PD, Walsh CT, Magarvey NA. A transglutaminase homologue as a condensation catalyst in antibiotic assembly lines. Nature. 2007 Aug 16;448(7155):824–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Chini R, Hoffmeister V, Kimeswenger S, Nielbock M, Nürnberger D, Schmidtobreick L, et al. The formation of a massive protostar through the disk accretion of gas. Nature. 2004 May 13;429(6988):155–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sigee DC. Freshwater Microbiology. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

Tjeerdema RS, editor. Aquatic Life Water Quality Criteria for Selected Pesticides. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2012. XII, 148 p. (Reviews of Environmental Contamination and Toxicology, Continuation of Residue Reviews; vol. 216).

A chapter in an edited book

Kolobov AV, Tominaga J. From 3D to 2D: Fabrication Methods. In: Tominaga J, editor. Two-Dimensional Transition-Metal Dichalcogenides. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 79–107. (Springer Series in Materials Science).

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 American Journal of Infection Control.

Blog post

Andrew E. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2015 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Can We Expand Solar Power Dramatically Without Damaging Protected Lands? Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/can-we-expand-solar-power-dramatically-without-damaging-protected-lands/

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. NHTSA: Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards and Occupant Crash Protection. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997 Apr. Report No.: OGC-97-33.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lapizco-Encinas GC. Cooperative particle swarm optimization for combinatorial problems [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 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

Pipher M. Lighting a Spark On the High Plains. New York Times. 2013 Apr 18;A27.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	American Journal of Infection Control
Abbreviation	Am. J. Infect. Control
ISSN (print)	0196-6553
ISSN (online)	1527-3296
Scope	Epidemiology Health Policy Infectious Diseases Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health