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

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

Ruoff RS. Journal club. A physical chemist is excited by the electronic potential of a new arrangement of carbon sheets. Nature 2010;463:853.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Bada JL, Lazcano A. Origin of life. Some like it hot, but not the first biomolecules. Science 2002;296:1982–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Fischer J, Baumgartner J, Marschner C. Synthesis and structure of sila-adamantane. Science 2005;310:825.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Liu S, Li P, Dybkov O, Nottrott S, Hartmuth K, Lührmann R, et al. Binding of the human Prp31 Nop domain to a composite RNA-protein platform in U4 snRNP. Science 2007;316:115–20.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Krasner D. A History of Modern Drama. Chichester, UK: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

[1]

Zarghami M. Multicriteria Analysis: Applications to Water and Environment Management. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Beck M, Geoghegan R. Recursion. In: Geoghegan R, editor. The Art of Proof: Basic Training for Deeper Mathematics, New York, NY: Springer; 2010, p. 33–45.

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 Infection and Chemotherapy.

Blog post

[1]

Carpineti A. New Wave Pattern On The Sun Might Help Us Predict Solar Storms. IFLScience 2017. https://www.iflscience.com/space/new-wave-pattern-on-the-sun-might-help-us-predict-solar-storms/ (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. A Working Glossary of Computer Software Terms. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1977.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Hubbard WL. The perceptions of public school administrators toward technology effectiveness and adequacy in curriculum and instruction in the Golden Triangle Public Schools of Mississippi. Doctoral dissertation. Mississippi State University, 2009.

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]

Barry E. Dancer Held in Acid Attack on Bolshoi Director. New York Times 2013:A1.

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 Infection and Chemotherapy
Abbreviation	J. Infect. Chemother.
ISSN (print)	1341-321X
Scope	Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical) Pharmacology (medical)