How to format your references using the Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. 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. Whiten A. The second inheritance system of chimpanzees and humans. Nature 2005; 437: 52–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Minamino T, Namba K. Distinct roles of the FliI ATPase and proton motive force in bacterial flagellar protein export. Nature 2008; 451: 485–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Kohguchi H, Suzuki T, Alexander MH. Fully state-resolved differential cross sections for the inelastic scattering of the open-shell NO molecule by Ar. Science 2001; 294: 832–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Bais HP, Vepachedu R, Gilroy S, Callaway RM, Vivanco JM. Allelopathy and exotic plant invasion: from molecules and genes to species interactions. Science 2003; 301: 1377–80.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hagen J. Chemiereaktoren. Weinheim, FRG: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2004.

An edited book

1. Schulte AK, Walker-Gibbs B eds. Self-studies in Rural Teacher Education. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Kantarci F, Mihmanli İ, MacLennan GT. Neoplasms of the Spermatic Cord and Testicular Adnexae. In: Dogra VS, MacLennan GT, eds. Genitourinary Radiology: Male Genital Tract, Adrenal and Retroperitoneum: The Pathologic Basis. London: Springer, 2013; 95–105.

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 of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy.

Blog post

1. Andrew E. Vultures Next On The Endangered Bushmeat Menu. IFLScience 2015. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/vultures-next-endangered-menu/. 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. Traffic Management: Federal Policies to Encourage Low-Cost Approaches Need to Be Strengthened. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1991.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Guzman S. Numerical investigations of a pipe jet with coil insert issuing into a crossflow. 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. (nyt) SK. World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Another Step Toward Private Farmland. New York Times 2002: A10.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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 of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy
Abbreviation	J. Antimicrob. Chemother.
ISSN (print)	0305-7453
ISSN (online)	1460-2091
Scope	Infectious Diseases Pharmacology (medical) Pharmacology