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. Buckingham S. Finding your way. Nature 2003; 425: 209.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Sabatini BL, Svoboda K. Analysis of calcium channels in single spines using optical fluctuation analysis. Nature 2000; 408: 589–93.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Nelson WA, Bjørnstad ON, Yamanaka T. Recurrent insect outbreaks caused by temperature-driven changes in system stability. Science 2013; 341: 796–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Grigera TS, Martín-Mayor V, Parisi G, Verrocchio P. Phonon interpretation of the ‘boson peak’ in supercooled liquids. Nature 2003; 422: 289–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Hersent O. IP Telephony. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

1. Rocca SRD ed. Typed Lambda Calculi and Applications: 8th International Conference,TLCA 2007, Paris, France,June 26-28, 2007. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Stoeglehner G, Narodoslawsky M, Erker S, Neugebauer G. Measures for Integrated Spatial and Energy Planning. In: Neugebauer G, Erker S, Narodoslawsky M, eds. Integrated Spatial and Energy Planning: Supporting Climate Protection and the Energy Turn with Means of Spatial Planning. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2016; 73–90.

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. O`Callaghan J. Scientists Investigate Mysterious ‘Crater’ In Antarctica. IFLScience 2016. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/mysterious-crater-in-antarctica-likely-formed-by-wind-not-meteorite/. 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. Central Artery/Tunnel Project. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1996.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Westgate M. La Boutique Fantasque: A full score edition for wind band. 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. Vecsey G. 50 Years Later, Maris’s 61-Homer Season Looks Even Better. New York Times 2011: SP2.

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