How to format your references using the Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy. 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

[1]

Ledford H. Minimum telomere length defined for healthy cells. Nature. 2007;449(7162):515.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Braun-Munzinger P, Stachel J. The quest for the quark-gluon plasma. Nature. 2007;448(7151):302–309.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ferrari G, Stornaiuolo A, Mavilio F. Failure to correct murine muscular dystrophy. Nature. 2001;411(6841):1014–1015.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

[1]

Kramer SG, Kidd T, Simpson JH, et al. Switching repulsion to attraction: changing responses to slit during transition in mesoderm migration. Science. 2001;292(5517):737–740.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Seagal ZM, Surnina OM. Ultrasonic Topographical and Pathotopographical Anatomy. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley &;#38; Sons, Inc.; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Liu J, Wu J, Yao Y, et al., editors. Active Media Technology: 5th International Conference, AMT 2009, Beijing, China, October 22-24, 2009. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Maâtouk O, Ayadi W, Bouziri H, et al. Evolutionary Algorithm Based on New Crossover for the Biclustering of Gene Expression Data. In: Comin M, Käll L, Marchiori E, et al., editors. Pattern Recognition in Bioinformatics: 9th IAPR International Conference, PRIB 2014, Stockholm, Sweden, August 21-23, 2014 Proceedings. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2014. p. 48–59.

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 Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew E. My Brain Made Me Do It: Will Neuroscience Change The Way We Punish Criminals? [Internet]. IFLScience. IFLScience; 2016 [cited 2018 Oct 30]. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/my-brain-made-me-do-it-will-neuroscience-change-way-we-punish-criminals/.

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. Highways: How State Agencies Adopt New Pavement Technologies. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1988. Report No.: PEMD-88-19. .

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

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Waterman MA. Housing for the homeless mentally ill population: A grant writing project [Doctoral dissertation]. [Long Beach, CA]: California State University, Long Beach; 2015.

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]

Kishkovsky S. Magazine Is New in Moscow, but Looks Familiar to New York. New York Times. 2004 Aug 21;A4.

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	Expert Review of Anti-infective Therapy
Abbreviation	Expert Rev. Anti. Infect. Ther.
ISSN (print)	1478-7210
ISSN (online)	1744-8336
Scope	Microbiology Virology Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)