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]

Blobel G. Christian de Duve (1917-2013). Nature 2013;498:300.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

McCarthy PM, Smith WA. Mechanical circulatory support--a long and winding road. Science 2002;295:998–9.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Lammert E, Cleaver O, Melton D. Induction of pancreatic differentiation by signals from blood vessels. Science 2001;294:564–7.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Breiling A, Turner BM, Bianchi ME, Orlando V. General transcription factors bind promoters repressed by Polycomb group proteins. Nature 2001;412:651–5.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Mohan N. Advanced Electric Drives. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2014.

An edited book

[1]

Lerer L, Olshevsky V, Spitkovsky IM, editors. Convolution Equations and Singular Integral Operators: Selected Papers of Israel Gohberg and Georg Heinig Israel Gohberg and Nahum Krupnik. vol. 206. Basel: Birkhäuser; 2010.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Shirshov AI. Some Theorems on Embedding of Rings. In: Bokut L, Shestakov I, Latyshev V, Zelmanov E, editors. Selected Works of A.I. Shirshov, Basel: Birkhäuser; 2009, p. 47–54.

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]

Davis J. Last Moments Of An Epic Battle Between Two Moose Perfectly Preserved In Ice. IFLScience 2016.

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. Status of Budget Authority Involved in Three Rescissions. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 1976.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Zanulabe Din MO. Engineered Synchrony of Bacterial Lysis and its Applications. Doctoral dissertation. University of California San Diego, 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]

Powell M. You’re No. 1 (2, 3, 4, 5, 6 ... ). New York Times 2017:B8.

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)

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