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. White BT. IBI series winner. Aipotu: simulation from nucleotides to populations and back again. Science. 2012;337:424–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Di Paolo G, De Camilli P. Phosphoinositides in cell regulation and membrane dynamics. Nature. 2006;443:651–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Moses MJ, Fettinger JC, Eichhorn BW. Interpenetrating As20 fullerene and Ni12 icosahedra in the onion-skin [As@Ni12@As20]3- ion. Science. 2003;300:778–80.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Waters MR, Stafford TW Jr, McDonald HG, Gustafson C, Rasmussen M, Cappellini E, et al. Pre-Clovis mastodon hunting 13,800 years ago at the Manis site, Washington. Science. 2011;334:351–3.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Boberski V. Community Banking Strategies. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2010.

An edited book

1. Sobh T, editor. Innovations and Advances in Computer Sciences and Engineering. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Nepple KG, Sandhu GS, Kibel AS. Percent Free PSA. In: Jones JS, editor. Prostate Cancer Diagnosis: PSA, Biopsy and Beyond. Totowa, NJ: Humana Press; 2013. p. 51–60.

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. O`Callaghan J. This Bionic Octopus Arm Can Wrap Around Objects And Pick Them Up [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2017 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/technology/this-bionic-octopus-arm-can-wrap-around-objects-and-pick-them-up/

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. Space Program: Space Debris a Potential Threat to Space Station and Shuttle. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1990 Apr. Report No.: IMTEC-90-18.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Russo CA. The potential harms of breast cancer screening: estimating the unnecessary surgical diagnosis of benign breast lesions and its impact on quality and cost among insured women younger than 65 years old [Doctoral dissertation]. [Washington, DC]: George Washington University; 2014.

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. Leland J. Acting on Broadway, Sleeping on His Couch. New York Times. 2017 Feb 24;MB2.

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
Scope