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

Fiorillo CD. Two dimensions of value: dopamine neurons represent reward but not aversiveness. Science. 2013 Aug 2;341(6145):546–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wu JQ, Pollard TD. Counting cytokinesis proteins globally and locally in fission yeast. Science. 2005 Oct 14;310(5746):310–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

Wichterle H, Gifford D, Mazzoni E. Neuroscience. Mapping neuronal diversity one cell at a time. Science. 2013 Aug 16;341(6147):726–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Hong Y, Stronach B, Perrimon N, Jan LY, Jan YN. Drosophila Stardust interacts with Crumbs to control polarity of epithelia but not neuroblasts. Nature. 2001 Dec 6;414(6864):634–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Silvia JE. Dynamic Economic Decision Making. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2011.

An edited book

Upreti DK, Divakar PK, Shukla V, Bajpai R, editors. Recent Advances in Lichenology: Modern Methods and Approaches in Biomonitoring and Bioprospection, Volume 1. New Delhi: Springer India; 2015. XV, 265 p. 65 illus., 42 illus. in color.

A chapter in an edited book

Cepoi L, Donţu N, Şalaru V, Şalaru V. Removal of Organic Pollutants from Wastewater by Cyanobacteria. In: Zinicovscaia I, Cepoi L, editors. Cyanobacteria for Bioremediation of Wastewaters. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. p. 27–43.

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

Fang J. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Why Do Young Lizards Have Blue Tails? Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/why-do-young-lizards-have-blue-tails/

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. Child Care: Information on Integrating Early Care and Education Funding. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016 Sep. Report No.: GAO-16-775R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Williams-Newball TI. Domain, Community and Practice: An Empirical Investigation of the Relationship Between Communities of Practice and Professional Identity Among Veterinarians [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2014.

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

Strauss B. N.L.R.B. Lawyer Affirms Athletes’ Rights. New York Times. 2017 Feb 1;B17.

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