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

Ellsworth WL. 2013. Injection-induced earthquakes. Science 341:1225942.

A journal article with 2 authors

Chen A, Sooryakumar R. 2013. Patterned time-orbiting potentials for the confinement and assembly of magnetic dipoles. Sci Rep 3:3124.

A journal article with 3 authors

Chesler PM, Liu H, Adams A. 2013. Holographic vortex liquids and superfluid turbulence. Science 341:368–372.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peng Y, Ellis BD, Wang X, Fettinger JC, Power PP. 2009. Reversible reactions of ethylene with distannynes under ambient conditions. Science 325:1668–1670.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Quesnel F. 2014. Scheduling of Large-Scale Virtualized Infrastructures. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

2016. Nonlinear Dynamics, Volume 1: Proceedings of the 34th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics 2016. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Zeng G, Gong B, Wang JS, Li J, Zhu J. 2014. BeiDou/GPS Indirect Fusion Precision Orbit Determination, p. 55–63. In Sun, J, Jiao, W, Wu, H, Lu, M (eds.), China Satellite Navigation Conference (CSNC) 2014 Proceedings: Volume III. 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 E. 2015. The Age Of Drones Has Arrived Quicker Than The Laws That Govern Them. IFLScience. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/age-drones-has-arrived-quicker-laws-govern-them/. 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. 1976. Problems Associated With D.C. Public Schools Payroll Reporting System. 089538. 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

Vande Voort PS. 2013. A phenomenological exploration of faculty experiences using lecture capture systems. Doctoral dissertation. University of Phoenix, Phoenix, AZ.

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

Pilon M. 2013. Top Sprinters Test Positive, Jolting Track World. 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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