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

Dekker J. 2008. Gene regulation in the third dimension. Science 319:1793–1794.

A journal article with 2 authors

Stoltz DB, Whitfield JB. 2009. Virology. Making nice with viruses. Science 323:884–885.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sarbu T, Styranec T, Beckman EJ. 2000. Non-fluorous polymers with very high solubility in supercritical CO2 down to low pressures. Nature 405:165–168.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mavárez J, Salazar CA, Bermingham E, Salcedo C, Jiggins CD, Linares M. 2006. Speciation by hybridization in Heliconius butterflies. Nature 441:868–871.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Bielecki TR, Brigo D, Patras F. 2011. Credit Risk Frontiers. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

2014. Interpersonal Relationships in Education: From Theory to Practice. SensePublishers, Rotterdam.

A chapter in an edited book

Zhao L, Sakr S, Liu A, Bouguettaya A. 2014. Performance Evaluation Framework of Cloud Platforms, p. 47–65. In Sakr, S, Liu, A, Bouguettaya, A (eds.), Cloud Data Management. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

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

Carpineti A. 2016. New Theory Suggests A Single Solution To The Biggest Problems In Physics. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/new-theory-suggests-a-single-solution-to-the-biggest-problems-in-physics/. 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. 2010. Aviation Safety: Improved Planning Could Help FAA Address Challenges Related to Winter Weather Operations. GAO-10-678. 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

Grosso T. 2015. Exploring How Older Adults Who Qualify for the Association on Aging with Developmental Disabilities (AADD) Programs and Services Learn to Successfully Age in Place. Doctoral dissertation. Lindenwood University, St. Charles, MO.

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

Crow K. 2003. Never-Never Land. 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

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