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]

Harrison SC. Virology. Looking inside adenovirus. Science 2010;329:1026–7.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Chen S-W, Liu R-B. Faraday rotation echo spectroscopy and detection of quantum fluctuations. Sci Rep 2014;4:4695.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Yaguchi S, Yaguchi J, Inaba K. bicaudal-C is required for the formation of anterior neurogenic ectoderm in the sea urchin embryo. Sci Rep 2014;4:6852.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Maharjan S, Oku M, Tsuda M, Hoseki J, Sakai Y. Mitochondrial impairment triggers cytosolic oxidative stress and cell death following proteasome inhibition. Sci Rep 2014;4:5896.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

McCall MW. Classical Mechanics. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2010.

An edited book

[1]

Pradalier C, Siegwart R, Hirzinger G, editors. Robotics Research: The 14th International Symposium ISRR. vol. 70. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Simpson JA, Collins WA, Farrell AK, Raby KL. Attachment and Relationships Across Time: An Organizational-Developmental Perspective. In: Zayas V, Hazan C, editors. Bases of Adult Attachment: Linking Brain, Mind and Behavior, New York, NY: Springer; 2015, p. 61–78.

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]

Andrews R. New Low-Cost Test Determines Blood Type In Just 30 Seconds. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/lowcost-test-blood-type-30-seconds/ (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. School Lunch Program: Buy American Procedures at Commodity Schools. 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]

Betts K. Ready, Steady, Putt! An Exhibition About the History of Miniature Golf in America. Doctoral dissertation. George Washington 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]

Apuzzo M, Goldman A, Mazzetti M. F.B.I. Warned G.O.P. Congressman Russian Spies Were Recruiting Him. New York Times 2017:A15.

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

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