How to format your references using the Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials. 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

1. Glikson A. Comment on “Zircon thermometer reveals minimum melting conditions on earliest Earth” I. Science. 2006;311:779; author reply 779.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. van Loosdrecht MCM, Brdjanovic D. Water treatment. Anticipating the next century of wastewater treatment. Science. 2014;344:1452–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Hessa T, White SH, von Heijne G. Membrane insertion of a potassium-channel voltage sensor. Science. 2005;307:1427.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Fleitmann D, Burns SJ, Mudelsee M, Neff U, Kramers J, Mangini A, et al. Holocene forcing of the Indian monsoon recorded in a stalagmite from southern Oman. Science. 2003;300:1737–9.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Marsh N. Forensic Photography. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2014.

An edited book

1. Cacciabue PC, editor. Modelling Driver Behaviour in Automotive Environments: Critical Issues in Driver Interactions with Intelligent Transport Systems. London: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Gao F, Xing C, Wang G. Channel Estimation for PLNC Under Time-Selective Fading Scenario. In: Xing C, Wang G, editors. Channel Estimation for Physical Layer Network Coding Systems. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 59–77.

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 Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials.

Blog post

1. Luntz S. First Rocky Material Found Coming From The Oort Cloud At The Edge Of The Solar System. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016.

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Financial Management Systems: Lack of Disciplined Process Puts Effective Implementation of Treasury’s Governmentwide Financial Report System at Risk. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2006 Apr. Report No.: GAO-06-413.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Crane CC. A Qualitative Study on the Preferred Working Environment of Southern California Secondary Teachers with Experience in Both a District Traditional School and a District Charter School [Doctoral dissertation]. [Malibu, CA]: Pepperdine University; 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

1. Vecsey G. More Than a Wizard. New York Times. 2010 Jun 5;D1.

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 [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials
Abbreviation	Ann. Clin. Microbiol. Antimicrob.
ISSN (online)	1476-0711
Scope	General Medicine Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)