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]

Florig HK. Public health. Is safe mail worth the price? Science 2002;295:1467–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Ohlstein B, Spradling A. The adult Drosophila posterior midgut is maintained by pluripotent stem cells. Nature 2006;439:470–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Contreras M, Ceric F, Torrealba F. Inactivation of the interoceptive insula disrupts drug craving and malaise induced by lithium. Science 2007;318:655–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Kwon KC, Ham J, Kim S, Lee J-L, Kim SY. Eco-friendly graphene synthesis on Cu foil electroplated by reusing Cu etchants. Sci Rep 2014;4:4830.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Samuels J. The Trader’s Pendulum. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc; 2015.

An edited book

[1]

Gabbay DM, Guenthner F, editors. Handbook of Philosophical Logic. vol. 12. 2nd Edition. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Alloyeau D. Transmission Electron Microscopy: A Multifunctional Tool for the Atomic-scale Characterization of Nanoalloys. In: Alloyeau D, Mottet C, Ricolleau C, editors. Nanoalloys: Synthesis, Structure and Properties, London: Springer; 2012, p. 113–57.

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]

Andrew E. How Corruption Is Hurting Mexico City’s Efforts To Tackle Air Pollution. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-corruption-hurting-mexico-city-s-efforts-tackle-air-pollution/ (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. NATO: Progress Toward More Mobile and Deployable Forces. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1999.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Reynolds PE. Learning the Ropes: A Grounded Theory Study of Children Crossing Cultures. Doctoral dissertation. Northcentral University, 2012.

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]

(nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Writer-Politician To Be Freed. New York Times 2003:A10.

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)