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]

Ernst T. Engineering. Controlling the polarity of silicon nanowire transistors. Science 2013;340:1414–5.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Robeva R, Laubenbacher R. Mathematical biology education: beyond calculus. Science 2009;325:542–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Jaffer H, Adjei IM, Labhasetwar V. Optical imaging to map blood-brain barrier leakage. Sci Rep 2013;3:3117.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Long H, Shi T, Hu H, Jiang S, Xi S, Tang Z. Growth of hierarchal mesoporous NiO nanosheets on carbon cloth as binder-free anodes for high-performance flexible lithium-ion batteries. Sci Rep 2014;4:7413.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Center for Chemical Process Safety. Tools for Making Acute Risk Decisions. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 1994.

An edited book

[1]

Jansen T. At Europe’s Service: The Origins and Evolution of the European People’s Party. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Ansel D, Nicot B, Piombini A, Girandola F. Affect, Uncertainty, and Decision-Making. In: Frankhauser P, Ansel D, editors. Deciding Where to Live: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Residential Choice in its Social Context, Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden; 2016, p. 93–112.

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]

Carpineti A. Amazing Finding Of Dunes On Rosetta’s Comet. IFLScience 2017.

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. Federal Support for Restaurant Sanitation Found Largely Ineffective. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1975.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Ashirgade A. Mechanistic study of the rubber-brass adhesion interphase. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati, 2010.

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]

Kenigsberg B. In the Pool, Autism Is No Barrier to Winning. New York Times 2017:C7.

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