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 reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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

Trounson, A. Keith H. Campbell (1954-2012). Nature 2012, 491, 193.

A journal article with 2 authors

Coffin, J.M.; Stoye, J.P. Virology. A New Virus for Old Diseases? Science 2009, 326, 530–531.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kim, S.; Ubel, P.; De Vries, R. Pruning the Regulatory Tree. Nature 2009, 457, 534–535.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brun, V.H.; Otnass, M.K.; Molden, S.; Steffenach, H.-A.; Witter, M.P.; Moser, M.-B.; Moser, E.I. Place Cells and Place Recognition Maintained by Direct Entorhinal-Hippocampal Circuitry. Science 2002, 296, 2243–2246.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Gatarek, D.; Bachert, P.; Maksymiuk, R. The LIBOR Market Model in Practice; John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Oxford, UK, 2007; ISBN 9781118673348.

An edited book

Robotic Systems for Handling and Assembly; Schütz, D., Wahl, F.M., Eds.; Springer Tracts in Advanced Robotics; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011; Vol. 67; ISBN 9783642167843.

A chapter in an edited book

Næsje, T.F.; Childs, A.-R.; Cowley, P.D.; Potts, W.M.; Thorstad, E.B.; Økland, F. Movements of Undersized Spotted Grunter (Pomadasys Commersonnii) in the Great Fish Estuary, South Africa: Implications for Fisheries Management. In Developments in Fish Telemetry: Proceedings of the Sixth Conference on Fish Telemetry held in Europe; Almeida, P.R., Quintella, B.R., Costa, M.J., Moore, A., Eds.; Developments in Hydrobiology 195; Springer Netherlands: Dordrecht, 2007; pp. 25–34 ISBN 9781402062360.

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

Hamilton, K. 52 Of The Most Common Myths and Misconceptions Debunked In One Infographic Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/52-common-myths-and-misconceptions-debunked/ (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 Congressional Oversight: FAA Case Study Shows How Agency Performance, Budgeting, and Financial Information Could Enhance Oversight; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2006;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Lakin, B.K. Reading First Program Effects on Students with Disabilities. Doctoral dissertation, Lindenwood University: St. Charles, MO, 2009.

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

Koblin, J. Apple’s First Big TV Move: A Spielberg Series Reboot. New York Times 2017, B3.

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