How to format your references using the International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents. 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]

Goldston D. The new boss in town. Nature 2009;457:17.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Laughlin SB, Sejnowski TJ. Communication in neuronal networks. Science 2003;301:1870–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Ding YS, Chan CT, Wang RP. Optical waves in a gradient negative-index lens of a half-infinite length. Sci Rep 2013;3:2954.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Ma L, Kong F, Ge H, Liu J, Gong F, Xu L, et al. Ventricular hypertrophy blocked delayed anesthetic cardioprotection in rats by alteration of iNOS/COX-2 signaling. Sci Rep 2014;4:7071.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Ratzliff A, Unutzer J, Katon W, Stephens KA. Integrated Care. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Bradley DT, Ryherd EE, Ronsse LM, editors. Worship Space Acoustics: 3 Decades of Design. 1st ed. 2016. New York, NY: Springer; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Manchanda S, Steemers K. Environmental Control and the Creation of Well-being. In: Rassia ST, Pardalos PM, editors. Sustainable Environmental Design in Architecture: Impacts on Health, New York, NY: Springer; 2012, p. 69–81.

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 International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. Scientists Think They’ve Discovered A New Domain Of Life In The Human Gut. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/scientists-discover-potential-new-domain-life-human-microbiome-0/ (accessed October 30, 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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. SEC: EDGAR Dissemination Update. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1993.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ziegler RT. The Impact of Strategic Planning Involvement on Employee Engagement in a Federal Public Health Agency. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2017.

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]

Billard M. Spoil Your Wrist. New York Times 2010:E5.

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	International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents
Abbreviation	Int. J. Antimicrob. Agents
ISSN (print)	0924-8579
Scope	General Medicine Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical) Pharmacology (medical)