How to format your references using the Journal of Hospital Infection citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Hospital Infection. 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]

Baker S. Infectious disease. A return to the pre-antimicrobial era? Science 2015;347:1064–6.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Moran TG, Davila JM. Three-dimensional polarimetric imaging of coronal mass ejections. Science 2004;305:66–70.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Harbaugh WT, Mayr U, Burghart DR. Neural responses to taxation and voluntary giving reveal motives for charitable donations. Science 2007;316:1622–5.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Jovanovic K, Gonsalves D, Da Costa Dias B, Moodley K, Reusch U, Knackmuss S, et al. Anti-LRP/LR specific antibodies and shRNAs impede amyloid beta shedding in Alzheimer’s disease. Sci Rep 2013;3:2699.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Gable J, Herrmann T. Counselling Skills for Dietitians. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Franklin ME. Treating Trichotillomania: Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy for Hairpulling and Related Problems. New York, NY: Springer; 2007.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Correig AM, Urquizu M, Vila J, Macià R. Microseism Activity and Equilibrium Fluctuations. In: Elsner JB, editor. Nonlinear Dynamics in Geosciences, New York, NY: Springer; 2007, p. 69–85.

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 Hospital Infection.

Blog post

[1]

Fang J. The Bizarre Life Of The Vampire Squid From Hell. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/vampire-squids-live-long-and-spawn-often/ (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. [Comments on the Federal Communications Commission’s Implementation of Section 254(h) of the Communications Act of 1934]. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1998.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Eutz RJ. The experiences of Recovery High School students: Using empirical phenomenology to garner knowledge. Doctoral dissertation. Capella University, 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]

Gordon MR. U.S. Plan for Afghanistan May Help, but Few Expect ‘Outright Victory.’ New York Times 2017:A11.

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 Hospital Infection
Abbreviation	J. Hosp. Infect.
ISSN (print)	0195-6701
Scope	General Medicine Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)