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. Carlson EW. Condensed-matter physics: Charge topology in superconductors. Nature. 2015;525:329–30.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Gao KQ, Shubin NH. Late Jurassic salamanders from northern China. Nature. 2001;410:574–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Chen GZ, Fray DJ, Farthing TW. Direct electrochemical reduction of titanium dioxide to titanium in molten calcium chloride. Nature. 2000;407:361–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. He X, He X, Dave VP, Zhang Y, Hua X, Nicolas E, et al. The zinc finger transcription factor Th-POK regulates CD4 versus CD8 T-cell lineage commitment. Nature. 2005;433:826–33.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Chitrapu P. Wideband TDD. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2005.

An edited book

1. Bella SD. The Science of the Individual: Leibniz’s Ontology of Individual Substance. Bencivenga E, Berthold-Bond D, Earle WJ, Ferguson A, Lloyd D, editors. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Masri R, Keller A. Chronic Pain Following Spinal Cord Injury. In: Jandial R, Chen MY, editors. Regenerative Biology of the Spine and Spinal Cord. New York, NY: Springer; 2012. p. 74–88.

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. Fang J. Collapsed Ice Lake Led to Catastrophic Martian Flood [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/collapsed-ice-lake-led-catastrophic-martian-flood/

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. Inspectors General: Actions Needed to Improve Audit Coverage of NASA. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2008 Dec. Report No.: GAO-09-88.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Keohane MF. Virtual team communication: Perceptions and experiences influencing the use of videoconferencing technology [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 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

1. Sisario B. New Arcade Fire Album Tops Billboard Chart. New York Times. 2017 Aug 7;C3.

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)