How to format your references using the Mediterranean Journal of Infection, Microbes and Antimicrobials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mediterranean Journal of Infection, Microbes and Antimicrobials (MJIMA). 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

Smith R. Why a macroeconomic perspective is critical to the prevention of noncommunicable disease. Science. 2012;337:1501–3.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gandin V, Topisirovic I. Cell biology. Trans-HSF1 express. Science. 2013;341:242–43.

A journal article with 3 authors

Beatty CD, Beirinckx K, Sherratt TN. The evolution of müllerian mimicry in multispecies communities. Nature. 2004;431:63–66.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Huo N, Yang S, Wei Z, Li S-S, Xia J-B, Li J. Photoresponsive and gas sensing field-effect transistors based on multilayer WS₂ nanoflakes. Sci Rep. 2014;4:5209.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

McDonald AG, Magande HL. Introduction to Thermo-Fluids Systems Design. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2012.

An edited book

Grimvall G, Holmgren ÅJ, Jacobsson P, Thedéen T, eds. Risks in Technological Systems. London: Springer, 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

Schwartz PH. Decision and Discovery in Defining ‘Disease.’ In: Kincaid H, McKitrick J (eds). Establishing Medical Reality: Essays In The Metaphysics And Epistemology Of Biomedical Science. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2007:47–63.

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 Mediterranean Journal of Infection, Microbes and Antimicrobials.

Blog post

Andrew E. How We Identified Weird And Wonderful ‘Jurassic Platypus’ Dinosaur [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015.

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. Title I: Education Needs to Monitor States’ Scoring of Assessments. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pettengill JB. Elucidating the macro- and micro-evolutionary relationships of the federally listed endangered species Agalinis acuta (Orobanchaceae). (thesis). 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

Billard M. The Engineered Shoe. New York Times. 2010;:E5.

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 ^[1,2,3,4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Mediterranean Journal of Infection, Microbes and Antimicrobials
ISSN (online)	2147-673X
Scope