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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Infection (YJINF). 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

Mervis Jeffrey. An education that closed doors. Science 2015;347(6221):578.

A journal article with 2 authors

Ma Jiyan, Lindquist Susan. Conversion of PrP to a self-perpetuating PrPSc-like conformation in the cytosol. Science 2002;298(5599):1785–8.

A journal article with 3 authors

Colley D. G., LoVerde P. T., Savioli L. Infectious disease. Medical helminthology in the 21st century. Science 2001;293(5534):1437–8.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Boch Jens, Scholze Heidi, Schornack Sebastian, Landgraf Angelika, Hahn Simone, Kay Sabine, et al. Breaking the code of DNA binding specificity of TAL-type III effectors. Science 2009;326(5959):1509–12.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zhang Limin, Peng Ming, Chang Dongsheng, Xu Yao. Dam Failure Mechanisms and Risk Assessment. Singapore: John Wiley & Sons Singapore Pte. Ltd; 2016.

An edited book

Kostkova Patty, Szomszor Martin, Fowler David, editors. Electronic Healthcare: 4th International Conference, eHealth 2011, Málaga, Spain, November 21-23, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. vol. 91. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Martin Charles, Gardner Henry. A Percussion-Focussed Approach to Preserving Touch-Screen Improvisation. In: England David, Schiphorst Thecla, Bryan-Kinns Nick, editors. Curating the Digital: Space for Art and Interaction. Cham: Springer International Publishing; 2016. pp. 51–72.

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.

Blog post

Carpineti Chris. Incredible Meteor Footage Captured By Dashcam. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/space/incredible-meteor-footage-captured-by-dashcam/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 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

Government Accountability Office. Federal Assistance Provided to Institutions of Higher Education. 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

Peacock Christopher. Design science research toward designing/prototyping a repeatable model for testing location management (LM) algorithms for wireless networking. Doctoral dissertation, Capella University, Minneapolis, MN, 2012.

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

Vecsey George. At Home, In Any House. New York Times 2010:B13.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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
Abbreviation	J. Infect.
ISSN (print)	0163-4453
ISSN (online)	1532-2742
Scope	Infectious Diseases Microbiology (medical)