How to format your references using the Journal des Anti-infectieux citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal des Anti-infectieux. 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]

Zamore PD. Ancient pathways programmed by small RNAs. Science 2002;296:1265–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Goldfine H, Vance DE. Obituary: Konrad E. Bloch (1912-2000). Nature 2001;409:779.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Dulac C, O’Connell LA, Wu Z. Neural control of maternal and paternal behaviors. Science 2014;345:765–70.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Huang H, Regan KM, Lou Z, Chen J, Tindall DJ. CDK2-dependent phosphorylation of FOXO1 as an apoptotic response to DNA damage. Science 2006;314:294–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Sapienza AM. Managing Scientists. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2004.

An edited book

[1]

Yen H-C, Ibarra OH, editors. Developments in Language Theory: 16th International Conference, DLT 2012, Taipei, Taiwan, August 14-17, 2012. Proceedings. vol. 7410. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Sakakibara Y, Sato K. Sequence and Structural Analyses for Functional Non-coding RNAs. In: Condon A, Harel D, Kok JN, Salomaa A, Winfree E, editors. Algorithmic Bioprocesses, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 63–79.

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 Journal des Anti-infectieux.

Blog post

[1]

Hale T. Scientists Hypnotize Baby Sea Turtles For Science. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scientists-hypnotize-baby-sea-turtles-science/ (accessed October 30, 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. Highlights of a Forum: Data and Analytics Innovation: Emerging Opportunities and Challenges. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Johnson S. Searching for Identity and Truth: How Letter Writing Creates Identity in Victorian Literature. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2017.

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]

Greenhouse L. Bush Appeals to Justices on Detainees Case. New York Times 2008:A17.

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	Journal des Anti-infectieux
ISSN (print)	2210-6545
Scope	Infectious Diseases Pharmacology (medical)