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]

Livio M. Lab life: don’t bristle at blunders. Nature 2013;497:309–10.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Hemmer P, Wrachtrup J. Physics. Where is my quantum computer? Science 2009;324:473–4.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Schorlemmer D, Wiemer S, Wyss M. Variations in earthquake-size distribution across different stress regimes. Nature 2005;437:539–42.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

de Garidel-Thoron T, Rosenthal Y, Bassinot F, Beaufort L. Stable sea surface temperatures in the western Pacific warm pool over the past 1.75 million years. Nature 2005;433:294–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

P. Wen E, Ellis R, S. Pujar N. Vaccine Development and Manufacturing. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Kendall D, Alexander S, editors. Behavioral Neurobiology of the Endocannabinoid System. vol. 1. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

den Dunnen WFA, Suurmeijer AJH, Proença RV, Herzog C, Groen JM, Greuter MJW, et al. Non-Invasive Measurement of Coronary Atherosclerosis. In: Oudkerk M, Reiser MF, editors. Coronary Radiology, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2009, p. 205–95.

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

[1]

Andrew D. Would Gender Differences Exist If We Treated All People The Same From Birth? IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/would-gender-differences-exist-if-we-treated-all-people-the-same-from-birth/ (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. FCC: Development of Technical and Spectrum Requirements for Meeting Public Safety Agency Communication Requirements Through 2010, Establishment of Rules and Requirements for Priority Access Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Rehan TY. Analysis of Life-Cycle Cost, Properties, and Field Performance of Parking Lot Pavements. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2016.

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]

Vecsey G. Back Home, Still Taking on the World. New York Times 2013:B8.

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)