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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Infection (YJINF). 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

Urquhart Kirstie. European research. Directive could give postdocs permanency. Science 2002;298(5594):724.

A journal article with 2 authors

Forget Anthony L., Kowalczykowski Stephen C. Single-molecule imaging of DNA pairing by RecA reveals a three-dimensional homology search. Nature 2012;482(7385):423–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

Shaviv Nir J., Prokoph Andreas, Veizer Ján. Is the solar system’s galactic motion imprinted in the Phanerozoic climate? Sci Rep 2014;4:6150.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Phillips L. Revell, Milescu Mirela, Li-Smerin Yingying, Mindell Joseph A., Kim Jae Il, Swartz Kenton J. Voltage-sensor activation with a tarantula toxin as cargo. Nature 2005;436(7052):857–60.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cann Alan J. Mathe für Biologen. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

Pokorski Mieczyslaw, editor. Environmental Biomedicine. vol. 849. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015.

A chapter in an edited book

Najnudel Joseph, Stroock Daniel, Yor Marc. On a Flow of Transformations of a Wiener Space. In: Decreusefond Laurent, Najim Jamal, editors. Stochastic Analysis and Related Topics: In Honour of Ali Süleyman Üstünel, Paris, June 2010. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012. pp. 119–31.

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 of Infection.

Blog post

Hale Tom. You Really Can Read People’s Emotions Through Their Eyes. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/brain/you-really-can-read-peoples-emotions-through-their-eyes/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 2017.

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. VBA Information Technology Investment. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Carter Kimberly Ellen. The use of boron-doped diamond film electrodes for the oxidative degradation of perfluorooctane sulfonate and trichloroethylene. Doctoral dissertation, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 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

Paulson Michael. A Last Wish From Albee: Destroy Work Left Undone. New York Times 2017:C1.

In-text citations

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

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 of Infection
Abbreviation	J. Infect.
ISSN (print)	0163-4453
ISSN (online)	1532-2742
Scope	Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)