How to format your references using the Antibiotics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Antibiotics. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
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

Gershon, D. In the Market-Place. Nature 2004, 432, 243–245.

A journal article with 2 authors

Woyke, T.; Rubin, E.M. Evolution. Searching for New Branches on the Tree of Life. Science 2014, 346, 698–699.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pertsinidis, A.; Zhang, Y.; Chu, S. Subnanometre Single-Molecule Localization, Registration and Distance Measurements. Nature 2010, 466, 647–651.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Yvan-Charvet, L.; Pagler, T.; Gautier, E.L.; Avagyan, S.; Siry, R.L.; Han, S.; Welch, C.L.; Wang, N.; Randolph, G.J.; Snoeck, H.W.; et al. ATP-Binding Cassette Transporters and HDL Suppress Hematopoietic Stem Cell Proliferation. Science 2010, 328, 1689–1693.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stewart, R. Plautus and Roman Slavery; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2012; ISBN 9781118524145.

An edited book

LATIN 2014: Theoretical Informatics: 11th Latin American Symposium, Montevideo, Uruguay, March 31–April 4, 2014. Proceedings; Pardo, A., Viola, A., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2014; Vol. 8392; ISBN 9783642544224.

A chapter in an edited book

Alekseev, A.O.; Alekseeva, T.V.; Gerasimenko, L.M.; Orleanskiy, V.K.; Ushatinskaya, G.T. Modifications of Selected Clay Minerals Due to Activity of Filamentous Alkaline Cyanobacteria. In Biogenic—Abiogenic Interactions in Natural and Anthropogenic Systems; Frank-Kamenetskaya, O.V., Panova, E.G., Vlasov, D.Y., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Earth System Sciences; Springer International Publishing: Cham, 2016; pp. 29–42 ISBN 9783319249858.

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 Antibiotics.

Blog post

Andrew, E. Women Still Find It Tough To Reach The Top In Science Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/women-still-find-it-tough-reach-top-science/ (accessed on 30 October 2018).

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 Airport Financing: Annual Funding As Much As $3 Billion Less Than Planned Development; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 1999;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Venter, W.M. People and Pride: A Qualitative Study of Place Attachment and Professional Placemakers. Doctoral dissertation, University of South Florida: Tampa, FL, 2016.

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

Kelly, C. Secrecy Mounting As the Cup Draws Near. New York Times 1999, 814.

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	Antibiotics
Abbreviation	Antibiotics (Basel)
ISSN (online)	2079-6382
Scope	Biochemistry Microbiology Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical) Pharmacology (medical) General Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutics