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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance. 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]

Van Kranendonk MJ. Geochemistry. Onset of plate tectonics. Science 2011;333:413–4.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Greif DM, Eichmann A. Vascular biology: Brain vessels squeezed to death. Nature 2014;508:50–1.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jarillo-Herrero P, van Dam JA, Kouwenhoven LP. Quantum supercurrent transistors in carbon nanotubes. Nature 2006;439:953–6.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Reddy KC, Andersen EC, Kruglyak L, Kim DH. A polymorphism in npr-1 is a behavioral determinant of pathogen susceptibility in C. elegans. Science 2009;323:382–4.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Hens H. Building Physics: Heat, Air and Moisture. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA; 2012.

An edited book

[1]

Sabbadini L. Protocollo per la valutazione delle Abilità Prassiche e della Coordinazione Motoria APCM. vol. 13. Milano: Springer; 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Yousuf TB. 3R (Reduce, Reuse and Recycle) in Bangladesh. In: Pariatamby A, Tanaka M, editors. Municipal Solid Waste Management in Asia and the Pacific Islands: Challenges and Strategic Solutions, Singapore: Springer; 2014, p. 61–75.

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 Global Antimicrobial Resistance.

Blog post

[1]

Davis J. World’s Largest Steel Producer Plans On Turning Waste Gas Into Ethanol Using Rabbit Microbe. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/worlds-largest-steel-producer-plan-turning-waste-gas-ethanol/ (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. National Airspace System: Observations on the Wide Area Augmentation System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Packer CD. School Referenda and Ohio Department of Education Typologies: An Investigation of the Outcomes of First Attempt School Operating Levies from 2002–2010. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati, 2013.

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]

Gustines GG. Zombies Revived in a Walking Dead Digital Comic. New York Times 2016:C6.

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 of Global Antimicrobial Resistance
Abbreviation	J. Glob. Antimicrob. Resist.
ISSN (print)	2213-7165
Scope