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

DeWeerdt, S. Mood Disorders: The Dark Night. Nature 2013, 497, S14-5.

A journal article with 2 authors

Soubeyrand, B.; Plotkin, S.A. Microbial Evolution: Antitoxin Vaccines and Pathogen Virulence. Nature 2002, 417, 609–610; discussion 610.

A journal article with 3 authors

Morales, R.; Di Matteo, T.; Aste, T. Dependency Structure and Scaling Properties of Financial Time Series Are Related. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4589.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mahecha, M.D.; Reichstein, M.; Carvalhais, N.; Lasslop, G.; Lange, H.; Seneviratne, S.I.; Vargas, R.; Ammann, C.; Arain, M.A.; Cescatti, A.; et al. Global Convergence in the Temperature Sensitivity of Respiration at Ecosystem Level. Science 2010, 329, 838–840.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Tripathi, N.; Singh, R.S.; Hills, C.D. Reclamation of Mine-Impacted Land for Ecosystem Recovery; John Wiley & Sons, Ltd: Chichester, UK, 2016; ISBN 9781119057925.

An edited book

Garvis, S. Whisperings from the Corridors: Stories of Teachers in Higher Education; Dwyer, R., Ed.; SensePublishers: Rotterdam, 2012; ISBN 9789462091641.

A chapter in an edited book

Cadossi, R. From Academy to Industry: Translational Research in Biophysics. In 11th Mediterranean Conference on Medical and Biomedical Engineering and Computing 2007: MEDICON 2007, 26-30 June 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Jarm, T., Kramar, P., Zupanic, A., Eds.; IFMBE Proceedings; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2007; pp. 10–13 ISBN 9783540730439.

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. With So Much Vested In Satellites, Solar Storms Could Bring Life To A Standstill Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/so-much-vested-satellites-solar-storms-could-bring-life-standstill/ (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 Highlights of a Forum: Transforming Transportation Policy for the 21st Century; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2007;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Beaven, L. Epiphanies of Soul: “When the Bolts of the Universe Fly Open.” A Depth Psychological Contemplation of Wonder. Doctoral dissertation, Pacifica Graduate Institute: Carpinteria, CA, 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

Otis, J. A Caretaker and Protector Dreams of the ‘Fullest’ Life Possible for Her Sister. New York Times 2016, A17.

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