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

Gershon D. In the market-place. Nature. 2004;432:243–45.

A journal article with 2 authors

Bakker HJ, Nienhuys H-K. Delocalization of protons in liquid water. Science. 2002;297:587–90.

A journal article with 3 authors

Bilham R, Gaur VK, Molnar P. Earthquakes. Himalayan seismic hazard. Science. 2001;293:1442–44.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Peruzzo A, Lobino M, Matthews JCF, Matsuda N, Politi A, Poulios K, Zhou X-Q, Lahini Y, Ismail N, Wörhoff K, Bromberg Y, Silberberg Y, Thompson MG, OBrien JL. Quantum walks of correlated photons. Science. 2010;329:1500–1503.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Deutscher Beton- und Bautechnik-Ver. Beispiele zur Bemessung nach Eurocode 2. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, 2015.

An edited book

Tsumoto S, Yamaguchi T, Numao M, Motoda H, eds. Active Mining: Second International Workshop, AM 2003, Maebashi, Japan, October 28, 2003. Revised Selected Papers. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer, 2005.

A chapter in an edited book

Souto EB, Fangueiro JF, Müller RH. Solid Lipid Nanoparticles (SLN^TM). In: Uchegbu IF, Schätzlein AG, Cheng WP, Lalatsa A (eds). Fundamentals of Pharmaceutical Nanoscience. New York, NY: Springer, 2013:91–116.

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

Andrew E. Trial Will Investigate Use Of MDMA In The Treatment Of Anxiety In Seriously Ill Patients [Internet]. IFLScience. 2015.Last accessed date: 2018 Oct 30. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/trial-will-investigate-use-mdma-treatment-anxiety-seriously-ill-patients/.

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. District of Columbia Draft Emergency Supplemental Funding Request for District of Columbia Public Schools. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office, 1997.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Skutt S. Midlife Metamorphosis: Archetypal Imaginal Psychology in Midlife Rite of Passage. (thesis). Pacifica Graduate Institute; 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

Greenhill KM. Don’t Dumb Down the Army. New York Times. 2006;:A23.

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