How to format your references using the Journal des Anti-infectieux citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal des Anti-infectieux. 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]

Robel A. Climate science: The long future of Antarctic melting. Nature 2015;526:327–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Wu L-Q, Dickman JD. Neural correlates of a magnetic sense. Science 2012;336:1054–7.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Wasan DT, Nikolov AD, Brenner H. Fluid dynamics. Droplets speeding on surfaces. Science 2001;291:605–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

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Jiang Y, Wang H-Y, Li Y, Guo S-H, Zhang L, Cai J-H, et al. Peripheral blood miRNAs as a biomarker for chronic cardiovascular diseases. Sci Rep 2014;4:5026.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Coates M, Jenkins B. Electrical Installation Calculations: For Compliance with BS 7671:2008. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Erçetin ŞŞ, editor. Women Leaders in Chaotic Environments: Examinations of Leadership Using Complexity Theory. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

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D’Mello S, Graesser A. Affect Detection from Human-Computer Dialogue with an Intelligent Tutoring System. In: Gratch J, Young M, Aylett R, Ballin D, Olivier P, editors. Intelligent Virtual Agents: 6th International Conference, IVA 2006, Marina Del Rey, CA, USA, August 21-23, 2006. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006, p. 54–67.

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 Journal des Anti-infectieux.

Blog post

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Carpineti A. The Interactions Between Antiprotons Have Been Measured For The First Time. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/physics/interactions-between-antiprotons-have-been-measured-first-time/ (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

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Government Accountability Office. Aviation Safety: Information on the Safety Effects of Modifying the Age Standard for Commercial Pilots. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

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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Anemaet WK. The effects of non -surgical interventions on osteoarthritis-like changes in the mouse knee. Doctoral dissertation. University of South Florida, 2008.

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]

Qiu L. On What He Really Said, and Whom He Is Blaming for It. New York Times 2017:A13.

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	Journal des Anti-infectieux
ISSN (print)	2210-6545
Scope	Infectious Diseases Pharmacology (medical)