How to format your references using the Annual Review of Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Annual Review of 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	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 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

Koen D. 2007. Time to make haste. Nature. 447(7147):1030

A journal article with 2 authors

Rudolph ML, Zhong S. 2013. Does quadrupole stability imply LLSVP fixity? Nature. 503(7477):E3-4

A journal article with 3 authors

McCauley E, Nelson WA, Nisbet RM. 2008. Small-amplitude cycles emerge from stage-structured interactions in Daphnia-algal systems. Nature. 455(7217):1240–43

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Smith JB, Lamanna MC, Lacovara KJ, Dodson P, Smith JR, et al. 2001. A giant sauropod dinosaur from an Upper Cretaceous mangrove deposit in Egypt. Science. 292(5522):1704–6

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Müller B, Van de Voorde M. 2017. Nanoscience and Nanotechnology for Human Health. Weinheim, Germany: Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA

An edited book

Muenchen RA. 2010. R for Stata Users. New York, NY: Springer. XXIV, 530 p p.

A chapter in an edited book

Poth S. 2014. Changing Strategies and Control Systems at a German Insurance Company. In Strategy, Control and Competitive Advantage: Case Study Evidence, ed E Jannesson, F Nilsson, B Rapp, pp. 107–37. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer

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 Annual Review of Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. 2015. Four Easy Tips To Make Your Batteries Last Longer. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/four-easy-tips-make-your-batteries-last-longer/

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. 2001. Public Assistance: PARIS Project Can Help States Reduce Improper Benefit Payments. GAO-01-935, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Pulukkunat D. 2008. Biochemical Studies on Archaeal Ribonuclease P Reveal Thematic Convergence in Protein-Facilitated RNA Catalysis. Doctoral dissertation thesis. Ohio State University

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

Pilon M. 2014. Awash in an Olympics Afterglow, but Still Remote. New York Times, March 2, p. TR7

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (2).
This sentence cites two references (2, 4).
This sentence cites four references (2, 5, 6, 8).

About the journal

Full journal title	Annual Review of Microbiology
Abbreviation	Annu. Rev. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0066-4227
ISSN (online)	1545-3251
Scope	Microbiology