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]

Fujita T. Virology. Sensing viral RNA amid your own. Science 2006;314:935–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Kawatani Y, Hamilton K. Weakened stratospheric quasibiennial oscillation driven by increased tropical mean upwelling. Nature 2013;497:478–81.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Cochran ES, Vidale JE, Tanaka S. Earth tides can trigger shallow thrust fault earthquakes. Science 2004;306:1164–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Reddy P, Jang S-Y, Segalman RA, Majumdar A. Thermoelectricity in molecular junctions. Science 2007;315:1568–71.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Kossiakoff A, Sweet WN. Systems Engineering Principles and Practice. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2005.

An edited book

[1]

Marshall AW. Life Distributions: Structure of Nonparametric, Semiparametric, and Parametric Families. New York, NY: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Dolama MV, Rahbar AG. Performance Evaluation of the Number of Database Accesses in Cellular Networks. In: Özcan A, Chaki N, Nagamalai D, editors. Recent Trends in Wireless and Mobile Networks: Second International Conference, WiMo 2010, Ankara, Turkey, June 26-28, 2010. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2010, p. 46–58.

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. This Is What Happens To Footballers’ Brains When They Miss Penalties. IFLScience 2016. https://www.iflscience.com/brain/this-is-what-happens-to-footballers-brains-when-they-miss-penalties/ (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. International Air Travelers: CBP Collaborates with Stakeholders to Facilitate the Arrivals Process, but Could Strengthen Reporting of Airport Wait Times. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2017.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Russo RA. Using a socio -cultural framework to evaluate farmland preservation policy success in Maryland. Doctoral dissertation. University of Maryland, College Park, 2009.

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]

St. John Kelly E. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times 1994:1310.

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)