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

Wright Anthony R. Realising Haldane’s vision for a Chern insulator in buckled lattices. Sci Rep 2013;3:2736.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bianco Valentino, Franzese Giancarlo. Critical behavior of a water monolayer under hydrophobic confinement. Sci Rep 2014;4:4440.

A journal article with 3 authors

Kovács Ágnes Melinda, Téglás Erno, Endress Ansgar Denis. The social sense: susceptibility to others’ beliefs in human infants and adults. Science 2010;330(6012):1830–4.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Farh Kyle Kai-How, Grimson Andrew, Jan Calvin, Lewis Benjamin P., Johnston Wendy K., Lim Lee P., et al. The widespread impact of mammalian MicroRNAs on mRNA repression and evolution. Science 2005;310(5755):1817–21.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Morsali Ali, Hashemi Lida. Main Group Metal Coordination Polymers. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2017.

An edited book

Pan Zhigeng, Aylett Ruth, Diener Holger, Jin Xiaogang, Göbel Stefan, Li Li, editors. Technologies for E-Learning and Digital Entertainment: First International Conference, Edutainment 2006, Hangzhou, China, April 16-19, 2006. Proceedings. vol. 3942. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2006.

A chapter in an edited book

Derdikman Dori, Moser Edvard I. Spatial Maps in the Entorhinal Cortex and Adjacent Structures. In: Derdikman Dori, Knierim James J., editors. Space,Time and Memory in the Hippocampal Formation. Vienna: Springer; 2014. pp. 107–25.

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

Luntz Stephen. Scrunchies Save Wildlife From Cats. IFLScience. Available at https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/scrunchies-saving-native-wildlife-cats/. Accessed October 30, 2018, 2015.

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. Public Transit: Observations on Recent Changes to the Capital Investment Grant Program. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2016.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Akiyama Kariann M. Taste Detection in Post-Laryngectomy Head and Neck Cancer Survivors and Its Effect on Dietary Intake and Malnutrition Status. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, 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

Oren Michael B. The Iran Deal Isn’t Worth Saving. New York Times 2017:A23.

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)