How to format your references using the Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control. 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 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

1. Dangl JL. Plant science. Nibbling at the plant cell nucleus. Science. 2007;315:1088–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Leinwand LA, Moss RL. Medicine. Chemically tuned myosin motors. Science. 2011;331:1392–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Anderson B, Cole WW, Barrett SCH. Botany: specialized bird perch aids cross-pollination. Nature. 2005;435:41–2.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Wiltschko W, Traudt J, Güntürkün O, Prior H, Wiltschko R. Lateralization of magnetic compass orientation in a migratory bird. Nature. 2002;419:467–70.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Alladin A. Integrative CBT for Anxiety Disorders. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2015.

An edited book

1. Bebis G, Boyle R, Parvin B, Koracin D, Fowlkes C, Wang S, et al., editors. Advances in Visual Computing: 8th International Symposium, ISVC 2012, Rethymnon, Crete, Greece, July 16-18, 2012, Revised Selected Papers, Part I. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Bendisposto J, Leuschel M. Automatic Flow Analysis for Event-B. In: Giannakopoulou D, Orejas F, editors. Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering: 14th International Conference, FASE 2011, Held as Part of the Joint European Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2011, Saarbrücken, Germany, March 26–April 3, 2011 Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011. p. 50–64.

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 Resistance and Infection Control.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. China and US Make Historic Climate Change Agreement [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/china-and-us-make-historic-climate-change-agreement/

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

1. Government Accountability Office. Curriculum Case Studies Are of Questionable Quality but Helped Precollege Curriculum Activities. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977 May. Report No.: HRD-77-46.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Okafor-Dike LC. The effect of leadership on economic development: A case study of Nigeria [Doctoral dissertation]. [Phoenix, AZ]: University of Phoenix; 2008.

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

1. Sisario B. Reaching No.1 On the Billboard Charts. New York Times. 2017 Oct 16;C3.

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	Antimicrobial Resistance and Infection Control
Abbreviation	Antimicrob. Resist. Infect. Control
ISSN (online)	2047-2994
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