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:

PaperpileThe citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNoteFind the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and othersThe style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeXBibTeX 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]
Binzel RP. Planetary science. A golden spike for planetary science. Science 2012;338:203–4.
A journal article with 2 authors
[1]
Blattman JN, Greenberg PD. Cancer immunotherapy: a treatment for the masses. Science 2004;305:200–5.
A journal article with 3 authors
[1]
Laubach M, Wessberg J, Nicolelis MA. Cortical ensemble activity increasingly predicts behaviour outcomes during learning of a motor task. Nature 2000;405:567–71.
A journal article with 7 or more authors
[1]
Sayrin C, Dotsenko I, Zhou X, Peaudecerf B, Rybarczyk T, Gleyzes S, et al. Real-time quantum feedback prepares and stabilizes photon number states. Nature 2011;477:73–7.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book
[1]
Anderson JB. Bandwidth Efficient Coding. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.
An edited book
[1]
Martin DK, editor. Nanobiotechnology of Biomimetic Membranes. vol. 1. Boston, MA: Springer US; 2007.
A chapter in an edited book
[1]
Myers J, Maresh M. Clinical Management. In: Ovesen PG, Møller Jensen D, editors. Maternal Obesity and Pregnancy, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012, p. 43–62.

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 E. Monkey Minds: What We Can Learn From Primate Personality. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/monkey-minds-what-we-can-learn-primate-personality/ (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. Financial Management: Briefing on the Federal Aviation Administration’s Inventory Accountability. 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]
Pecue CJ. Utilizing Audiovisual Stimuli in the Classroom to Facilitate Pronunciation of French Stop Consonants. Doctoral dissertation. Southern Illinois University, 2015.

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]
Crow K. Reminiscing About a Woman With Quirks as Well as Causes. New York Times 2002:146.

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 titleJournal des Anti-infectieux
ISSN (print)2210-6545
ScopeInfectious Diseases
Pharmacology (medical)

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