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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for American Journal of 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	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 references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles 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

Quéré Y. Academies must engage with society. Nature. 2010 Jun 24;465(7301):1009.

A journal article with 2 authors

Berenbaum MR, Eisner T. Ecology. Bugs’ bugs. Science. 2008 Oct 3;322(5898):52–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wolfsberg TG, McEntyre J, Schuler GD. Guide to the draft human genome. Nature. 2001 Feb 15;409(6822):824–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Xue WQ, He YQ, Zhu JH, Ma JQ, He J, Jia WH. Association of BRCA2 N372H polymorphism with cancer susceptibility: a comprehensive review and meta-analysis. Sci Rep. 2014 Oct 28;4:6791.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Rao CL, Narayanamurthy V, Simha KRY. Applied Impact Mechanics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Clerbout N. Linking Game-Theoretical Approaches with Constructive Type Theory: Dialogical Strategies, CTT demonstrations and the Axiom of Choice. Rahman S, editor. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2015. XIX, 99 p. 26 illus. (SpringerBriefs in Philosophy).

A chapter in an edited book

Maji P, Paul S. f-Information Measures for Selection of Discriminative Genes from Microarray Data. In: Paul S, editor. Scalable Pattern Recognition Algorithms: Applications in Computational Biology and Bioinformatics. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 131–53.

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 American Journal of Infection Control.

Blog post

Hamilton K. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Do You Really Choose What You Eat – Or Do Your Gut Microbes Decide For You? Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/do-you-really-choose-what-you-eat-or-do-your-gut-microbes-decide-for-you/

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. International Aviation: Airline Alliances Produce Benefits, but Effect on Competition Is Uncertain. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1995 Apr. Report No.: RCED-95-99.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Flynn MJ. Lifeguard employability skills [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2013.

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

Walsh MW. Car Insurers Facing Rush Of Claims After Storm. New York Times. 2017 Aug 31;B4.

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	American Journal of Infection Control
Abbreviation	Am. J. Infect. Control
ISSN (print)	0196-6553
ISSN (online)	1527-3296
Scope	Epidemiology Health Policy Infectious Diseases Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health