How to format your references using the AIMS Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for AIMS Microbiology. 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	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most reference managers.
BibTeX	BibTeX styles 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 (2005) Recruiters and industry. Microsoft’s European perspective. Nature 434: 938.

A journal article with 2 authors

Djupedal I, Ekwall K (2008) Molecular biology. The paradox of silent heterochromatin. Science 320: 624–625.

A journal article with 3 authors

Woosley SE, Blinnikov S, Heger A (2007) Pulsational pair instability as an explanation for the most luminous supernovae. Nature 450: 390–392.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Pérez-Brocal V, Gil R, Ramos S, et al. (2006) A small microbial genome: the end of a long symbiotic relationship? Science 314: 312–313.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hogan K (2008) The Secret Language of Business, Hoboken, NJ, John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

An edited book

Lam J, Li KC, Cheung SKS, et al. (Eds.) (2013) Knowledge Sharing through Technology: 8th International Conference on Information and Communication Technology in Teaching and Learning, ICT 2013, Hong Kong, China, July 10-11, 2013, Revised Selected Papers, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer.

A chapter in an edited book

Boulier F, Chen C, Lemaire F, et al. (2014) Real Root Isolation of Regular Chains, In: Feng R, Lee W-S, Sato Y (Eds.), Computer Mathematics: 9th Asian Symposium (ASCM2009), Fukuoka, December 2009, 10th Asian Symposium (ASCM2012), Beijing, October 2012, Contributed Papers and Invited Talks, Berlin, Heidelberg, Springer, 33–48.

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 AIMS Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) IFLScience, New Species Of Peacock Spider Described, 2015. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/another-magnificent-species-peacock-spider-described/.

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 (1980) Does DOD Need a Dedicated System of High Altitude Satellites To Meet Its Strategic Communications Requirements for the Next Decade?, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Emale JM (2010) An examination of how conglomerates impact small-medium enterprises in their relationship.

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

Belson K, Pilon M (2012) Round One in Sprints to Jamaica; Briton Takes 10,000. New York Times SP3.

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 [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	AIMS Microbiology
ISSN (online)	2471-1888
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