How to format your references using the Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Antimicrobial Resistance and 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

1. McDermott J. The evolution of music. Nature. 2008;453:287–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Goldenfeld N, Woese C. Biology’s next revolution. Nature. 2007;445:369.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Morales R, Di Matteo T, Aste T. Dependency structure and scaling properties of financial time series are related. Sci Rep. 2014;4:4589.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Eldar A, Chary VK, Xenopoulos P, Fontes ME, Losón OC, Dworkin J, et al. Partial penetrance facilitates developmental evolution in bacteria. Nature. 2009;460:510–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Kubicek CP. Fungi and Lignocellulosic Biomass. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2012.

An edited book

1. Bosse T, Geller A, Jonker CM, editors. Multi-Agent-Based Simulation XI: International Workshop, MABS 2010, Toronto, Canada, May 11, 2010, Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Basu R. California and Climate Changes. In: Pinkerton KE, Rom WN, editors. Global Climate Change and Public Health. New York, NY: Springer; 2014. p. 71–83.

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 Resistance and Infection Control.

Blog post

1. Hale T. Motorcyclists Appear To Come Across A “Tribesman” In Indonesian Forest [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/motorcyclists-appear-to-come-across-a-tribesman-in-indonesian-forest/. Accessed 30 Oct 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. Truck Safety: Motor Carriers Office Hampered by Limited Information on Causes of Crashes and Other Data Problems. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999 Jun. Report No.: RCED-99-182.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Patel VM. Sparse and redundant representations for inverse problems and recognition [Doctoral dissertation]. [College Park, MD]: University of Maryland, College Park; 2010.

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. Koblin J. NBC Will Bring Back ‘Will & Grace.’ New York Times. 2017 Jan 18;C2.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

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 Resistance and Infection Control
Abbreviation	Antimicrob. Resist. Infect. Control
ISSN (online)	2047-2994
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