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. Giles J. Attosecond science: the fast show. Nature 2002; 420: 737.

A journal article with 2 authors

1. Bossuyt F, Milinkovitch MC. Amphibians as indicators of early tertiary ‘out-of-India’ dispersal of vertebrates. Science 2001; 292: 93–5.

A journal article with 3 authors

1. Lu K, Lu L, Suresh S. Strengthening materials by engineering coherent internal boundaries at the nanoscale. Science 2009; 324: 349–52.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

1. Huertas P, Cortés-Ledesma F, Sartori AA, Aguilera A, Jackson SP. CDK targets Sae2 to control DNA-end resection and homologous recombination. Nature 2008; 455: 689–92.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

1. Burrell DB. Towards a Jewish-Christian-Muslim Theology. Oxford, UK: Wiley-Blackwell; 2011.

An edited book

1. Todorovski L, Lavrač N, Jantke KP eds. Discovery Science: 9th International Conference, DS 2006, Barcelona, Spain, October 7-10, 2006. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

1. Schoder D, Fischbach K, Schmitt C. 4. Application Areas. In: Steinmetz R, Wehrle K, eds. Peer-to-Peer Systems and Applications. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005; 25–32.

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. Davis J. U.K. Suspends Ban On Controversial Pesticide Linked To Decline In Bee Populations. IFLScience 2015. Available at: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/uk-suspends-ban-controversial-pesticide/. 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. Highway Infrastructure: FHWA’s Model for Estimating Highway Needs Is Generally Reasonable, Despite Limitations. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2000.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

1. Giuseffi FG. Investigation of the Influence of the Socratic Method on Leadership Skills among JROTC Cadet Leaders at a Military Boarding School. 2014.

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. Bogle JC. Putting Clients Second. New York Times 2017: A27.

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

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