How to format your references using the Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy (AAC). 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

Sagdeev R. 2007. History of science. Sputnik and the Soviets. Science 318:51–52.

A journal article with 2 authors

Watmough SA, Dillon PJ. 2003. Mycorrhizal weathering in base-poor forests. Nature 423:823–4; discussion 824.

A journal article with 3 authors

Orihara Y, Kamogawa M, Nagao T. 2014. Preseismic changes of the level and temperature of confined groundwater related to the 2011 Tohoku Earthquake. Sci Rep 4:6907.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Jiang Y, Chen Z, Han Y, Deb P, Gao H, Xie S, Purohit P, Tate MW, Park J, Gruner SM, Elser V, Muller DA. 2018. Electron ptychography of 2D materials to deep sub-ångström resolution. Nature 559:343–349.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Shreves R. 2009. Joomla!® Bible. Wiley Publishing, Inc., Indianapolis, IN, USA.

An edited book

2013. Business Process Management Workshops: BPM 2012 International Workshops, Tallinn, Estonia, September 3, 2012. Revised Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Derwing TM, Fraser H, Kang O, Thomson RI. 2014. L2 Accent and Ethics: Issues that Merit Attention, p. 63–80. In Mahboob, A, Barratt, L (eds.), Englishes in Multilingual Contexts: Language Variation and Education. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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 Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

Blog post

Fang J. 2016. Chameleon Tongues Are 400 Times Stickier Than Ours. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/chameleon-tongues-are-so-sticky/. Retrieved 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. 1982. Recommendation Concerning Claim by Teacher for Backpay in DOD Overseas Dependents Schools. B-156439(JAB). U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Poudyal Kharel A. 2015. Pyrolysis Studies of Copper and Copper Phosphate Mixtures on a Tungsten Surface. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, IL.

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

Brantley B. 2017. A Den of Family Dysfunction. New York Times.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

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	Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy
Abbreviation	Antimicrob. Agents Chemother.
ISSN (print)	0066-4804
ISSN (online)	1098-6596
Scope	Infectious Diseases Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology