How to format your references using the Mediterranean Journal of Infection, Microbes and Antimicrobials citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Mediterranean Journal of Infection, Microbes and Antimicrobials (MJIMA). 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

Smaglik P. Language lessons: Heidelberg. Nature. 2003;423:364–65.

A journal article with 2 authors

Allmann BP, Shearer PM. A high-frequency secondary event during the 2004 Parkfield earthquake. Science. 2007;318:1279–83.

A journal article with 3 authors

Sakuno T, Tada K, Watanabe Y. Kinetochore geometry defined by cohesion within the centromere. Nature. 2009;458:852–58.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Mechelli A, Crinion JT, Noppeney U, O’Doherty J, Ashburner J, Frackowiak RS, Price CJ. Neurolinguistics: structural plasticity in the bilingual brain. Nature. 2004;431:757.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Young GC. Municipal Solid Waste to Energy Conversion Processes. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010.

An edited book

Severi F, ed. Teorema di Riemann-Roch e questioni connesse. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

Ottoy G, Lapon J, Naessens V, Preneel B, De Strycker L. Dedicated Hardware for Attribute-Based Credential Verification. In: Decker BD, Dittmann J, Kraetzer C, Vielhauer C (eds). Communications and Multimedia Security: 14th IFIP TC 6/TC 11 International Conference, CMS 2013, Magdeburg, Germany, September 25-26, 2013. Proceedings. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2013:50–65.

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 Mediterranean Journal of Infection, Microbes and Antimicrobials.

Blog post

Hale T. Tesla Powers A Whole Island With Solar Power [Internet]. IFLScience. 2016.Last accessed date: 2018 Oct 30. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/tesla-powers-a-whole-island-with-solar-power/.

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. Information Technology: Responses to Subcommittee Post-Hearing Questions Regarding the FBI’s Management Practices and Acquisition of a New Investigative Case Management System. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 2005.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Ryan JI. Analysis of the role of the Jackson Prairie in prehistoric/protohistoric settlement patterns using survey data from the Bienville National Forest. (thesis). Mississippi State University; 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

Crow K. Untouched, But Touched. New York Times. 2001;:141.

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 ^[1,2,3,4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Mediterranean Journal of Infection, Microbes and Antimicrobials
ISSN (online)	2147-673X
Scope