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]

Smaglik P. Up for review. Nature 2004;430:591.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bada JL, Lazcano A. Perceptions of science. Prebiotic soup--revisiting the Miller experiment. Science 2003;300:745–6.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Shembade N, Ma A, Harhaj EW. Inhibition of NF-kappaB signaling by A20 through disruption of ubiquitin enzyme complexes. Science 2010;327:1135–9.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Waldron KJ, Rutherford JC, Ford D, Robinson NJ. Metalloproteins and metal sensing. Nature 2009;460:823–30.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Golio M. Engineering Your Retirement. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2006.

An edited book

[1]

Misra S, Woungang I, Chandra Misra S, editors. Guide to Wireless Ad Hoc Networks. London: Springer; 2009.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Li F, Klette R. Convex Hulls in the Plane. In: Klette R, editor. Euclidean Shortest Paths: Exact or Approximate Algorithms, London: Springer; 2011, p. 93–125.

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]

Fang J. Apes Rewatching Movies Know When Exciting Scenes Are Coming Up. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/apes-rewatching-movies-know-when-exciting-scenes-are-coming/ (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. Information Technology Utilization by the Federal Government. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1989.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

James TC. African American Students in a California Community College: Perceptions of Cultural Congruity and Academic Self-Concept within a Black Culture Center. Doctoral dissertation. Pepperdine University, 2017.

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]

Alexander K. What Should I Stop Buying and Make Instead? New York Times 2011:MM48.

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