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

Alerstam T. 2006. Conflicting evidence about long-distance animal navigation. Science 313:791–794.

A journal article with 2 authors

Gaztelumendi N, Nogués C. 2014. Chromosome instability in mouse embryonic stem cells. Sci Rep 4:5324.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dial KP, Jackson BE, Segre P. 2008. A fundamental avian wing-stroke provides a new perspective on the evolution of flight. Nature 451:985–989.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Brar GA, Kiburz BM, Zhang Y, Kim J-E, White F, Amon A. 2006. Rec8 phosphorylation and recombination promote the step-wise loss of cohesins in meiosis. Nature 441:532–536.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Linder B. 2004. Thermodynamics and Introductory Statistical Mechanics. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

2014. Statistical Atlases and Computational Models of the Heart. Imaging and Modelling Challenges: 4th International Workshop, STACOM 2013, Held in Conjunction with MICCAI 2013, Nagoya, Japan, September 26, 2013. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Goczyła K, Waloszek W, Zawadzka T, Zawadzki M. 2008. Processing and Querying Description Logic Ontologies Using Cartographic Approach, p. 63–80. In Cotta, C, Reich, S, Schaefer, R, Ligęza, A (eds.), Knowledge-Driven Computing: Knowledge Engineering and Intelligent Computations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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

Andrew D. 2016. Sex And Other Myths About Weight Loss. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/sex-and-other-myths-about-weight-loss/. 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. 1994. Health, Education, Employment, and Income Security Reports. HEHS-94-96W. 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

Taboada-Peña R. 2017. A Self-Empowering Holistic Art-Based Model Designed to Promote Emotional Well-Being, Coping Skills, and Self-Esteem in Youth. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA.

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

Robbins L. 2017. Despite ‘Sanctuary City’ Policy, Mayor Says New York Complies With U.S. Law. 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