How to format your references using the Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (AAC). 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

Brashears ME. 2013. Humans use compression heuristics to improve the recall of social networks. Sci Rep 3:1513.

A journal article with 2 authors

Horne-Badovinac S, Munro E. 2011. Developmental biology. Tubular transformations. Science 333:294–295.

A journal article with 3 authors

Zhang Y, Lu H, Bargmann CI. 2005. Pathogenic bacteria induce aversive olfactory learning in Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature 438:179–184.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Koster DA, Palle K, Bot ESM, Bjornsti M-A, Dekker NH. 2007. Antitumour drugs impede DNA uncoiling by topoisomerase I. Nature 448:213–217.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Boxer H. 2014. Profitable Day and Swing Trading. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

2016. Homo- and Heterobimetallic Complexes in Catalysis: Cooperative Catalysis1st ed. 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Ahmadi Behnam S, Amyot D. 2011. Evolution of Goal-Driven Pattern Families for Business Process Modeling, p. 46–61. In Babin, G, Stanoevska-Slabeva, K, Kropf, P (eds.), E-Technologies: Transformation in a Connected World: 5th International Conference, MCETECH 2011, Les Diablerets, Switzerland, January 23-26, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

Blog post

O`Callaghan J. 2017. This Battery That Lasts 10 Years Could Revolutionize The Future Of Renewable Energy. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-battery-that-lasts-10-years-could-revolutionize-the-future-of-renewable-energy/. Retrieved 30 October 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

Government Accountability Office. 2006. Space Acquisitions: DOD Needs to Take More Action to Address Unrealistic Initial Cost Estimates of Space Systems. GAO-07-96. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Strong M. 2013. Investigation and Characterization of Features on a Cretaceous-Paleogene Seismic Horizon in Northern Louisiana. Doctoral dissertation. University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA.

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

Barron J. 2016. A Band Helps the East Village Heal After a Devastating Gas Explosion. New York Times.

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	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Abbreviation	Antimicrob. Agents Chemother.
ISSN (print)	0066-4804
ISSN (online)	1098-6596
Scope	Infectious Diseases Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology