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

Hoag H. Tougher rules aim to prevent gene flow into crops. Nature. 2003 Mar 13;422(6928):103.

A journal article with 2 authors

Shapiro NM, Koulakov I. Geophysics. Probing the underbelly of a supervolcano. Science. 2015 May 15;348(6236):758–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

Mehta MR, Lee AK, Wilson MA. Role of experience and oscillations in transforming a rate code into a temporal code. Nature. 2002 Jun 13;417(6890):741–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Wu Z, Huang XL, Wang ZL, Xu JJ, Wang HG, Zhang XB. Electrostatic induced stretch growth of homogeneous β-Ni(OH)2 on graphene with enhanced high-rate cycling for supercapacitors. Sci Rep. 2014 Jan 13;4:3669.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

E. Sutherland P. Principles of Electrical Safety. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

Leal Filho W, editor. The Economic, Social and Political Elements of Climate Change. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. XII, 875 p. 160 illus. (Climate Change Management).

A chapter in an edited book

Han Y, Saxena S. Algorithms for Testing Length Four Permutations. In: Fellows M, Tan X, Zhu B, editors. Frontiers in Algorithmics and Algorithmic Aspects in Information and Management: Third Joint International Conference, FAW-AAIM 2013, Dalian, China, June 26-28, 2013 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2013. p. 17–23. (Hutchison D, Kanade T, Kittler J, Kleinberg JM, Mattern F, Mitchell JC, et al., editors. Lecture Notes in Computer Science).

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

Carpineti A. Gravitational Waves Observed For A Third Time [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/gravitational-waves-observed-for-a-third-time/

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. Information Technology: Leadership Remains Key to Agencies Making Progress on Enterprise Architecture Efforts. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2003 Nov. Report No.: GAO-04-40.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Nakayama M. Educational Advocacy for Children in Foster Care: A Grant Proposal [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 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

Mann J. A Foreign Policy Team of Rivals. New York Times. 2016 Dec 17;SR11.

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

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