How to format your references using the The Journal of Antibiotics citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for The Journal of Antibiotics. 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

Ackert, R. P., Jr. Glaciology. An ice sheet remembers. Science 299, 57–58 (2003).

A journal article with 2 authors

Farmer, J. D. & Foley, D. The economy needs agent-based modelling. Nature 460, 685–686 (2009).

A journal article with 3 authors

Bazzini, A. A., Lee, M. T. & Giraldez, A. J. Ribosome profiling shows that miR-430 reduces translation before causing mRNA decay in zebrafish. Science 336, 233–237 (2012).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Stoleru, D., Peng, Y., Nawathean, P. & Rosbash, M. A resetting signal between Drosophila pacemakers synchronizes morning and evening activity. Nature 438, 238–242 (2005).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Flynn, J. R. How to Improve Your Mind. (Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK, 2012).

An edited book

Magnetic Particle Imaging: A Novel SPIO Nanoparticle Imaging Technique. vol. 140 (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2012).

A chapter in an edited book

Kubczak, C., Margaria, T., Steffen, B. & Nagel, R. Service-oriented Mediation with jABC/jETI. in Semantic Web Services Challenge: Results from the First Year (eds. Petrie, C., Margaria, T., Lausen, H. & Zaremba, M.) 71–99 (Springer US, Boston, MA, 2009).

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 The Journal of Antibiotics.

Blog post

Luntz, S. Silver Turns Bacteria Into Killer Zombies. IFLScience (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. Private Enterprise, Public Responsibilities. (1988).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Weir, B. The transfer of momentum from waves to currents due to wave breaking. (University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2010).

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

Shpigel, B. Steelers Flex Muscle, on Ground and Through the Air. New York Times D3 (2017).

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	The Journal of Antibiotics
Abbreviation	J. Antibiot. (Tokyo)
ISSN (print)	0021-8820
ISSN (online)	1881-1469
Scope	Drug Discovery Pharmacology