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

Cahn, R. W. Genesis by definition. Nature 410, 307 (2001).

A journal article with 2 authors

Goodson, J. L. & Bass, A. H. Forebrain peptides modulate sexually polymorphic vocal circuitry. Nature 403, 769–772 (2000).

A journal article with 3 authors

Song, B.-S., Noda, S. & Asano, T. Photonic devices based on in-plane hetero photonic crystals. Science 300, 1537 (2003).

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Pradillon, F., Shillito, B., Young, C. M. & Gaill, F. Deep-sea ecology. Developmental arrest in vent worm embryos. Nature 413, 698–699 (2001).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hagen, J. Chemiereaktoren. (Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, FRG, 2004).

An edited book

Global Citizen – Challenges and Responsibility in an Interconnected World. (SensePublishers, Rotterdam, 2014).

A chapter in an edited book

Shimomura, Y., Watanabe, K., Akasaka, F. & Kimita, K. Fan Out of Japanese Service Engineering - the State of the Art -. in Functional Thinking for Value Creation: Proceedings of the 3rd CIRP International Conference on Industrial Product Service Systems, Technische Universität Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany, May 5th - 6th, 2011 (eds. Hesselbach, J. & Herrmann, C.) 15–20 (Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2011).

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

Andrews, R. Every Single Polar Bear Population In The Arctic Faces Unprecedented Habitat Loss. IFLScience (2016).

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. Voters With Disabilities: Access to Polling Places and Alternative Voting Methods. (2001).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Hantgan, A. Aspects of Bangime Phonology, Morphology, and Morphosyntax. (Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, 2013).

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

Greenhouse, L. JUSTICES, 5-4, BACK DETAINEE APPEALS FOR GUANTÁNAMO. New York Times A1 (2008).

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