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. Finney C. Conservation economics. Comment on “Using ecological thresholds to evaluate the costs and benefits of set-asides in a biodiversity hotspot.” Science. 2015;347:731.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Stegemann S, Bock R. Exchange of genetic material between cells in plant tissue grafts. Science. 2009;324:649–51.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Long SB, Casey PJ, Beese LS. Reaction path of protein farnesyltransferase at atomic resolution. Nature. 2002;419:645–50.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Ostermeier GC, Miller D, Huntriss JD, Diamond MP, Krawetz SA. Reproductive biology: delivering spermatozoan RNA to the oocyte. Nature. 2004;429:154.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Thornicroft G, Semrau M, Alem A, Drake RE, Ito H, Mari J, et al. Community Mental Health. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2011.

An edited book

1. Marquis GB. IIW Recommendations for the HFMI Treatment: For Improving the Fatigue Strength of Welded Joints. Barsoum Z, editor. Singapore: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. de Oliveira AMP, Barbosa JC. Mathematical Modelling, Mathematical Content and Tensions in Discourses. In: Stillman GA, Kaiser G, Blum W, Brown JP, editors. Teaching Mathematical Modelling: Connecting to Research and Practice. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2013. p. 67–76.

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. After Rosetta, Japanese Mission Aims For An Asteroid In Search of Origins of Earth’s Water [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2014 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/space/after-rosetta-japanese-mission-aims-asteroid-search-origins-earth-s-water/

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. Army Reserve Officer Education. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993 May. Report No.: NSIAD-93-197R.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Rodriguez F. Grant proposal: Providing effective screening, training, and supervision for an at-risk youth mentoring program [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2010.

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. Wagner J. For the Mets, a Middleman on Call 24/7. New York Times. 2016 Nov 19;D1.

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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