How to format your references using the Archives of Microbiology citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Archives 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

Gibson S (2009) Journal club. An organic chemist highlights an ingenious way to make radiotracers. Nature 457:515

A journal article with 2 authors

Partida-Martinez LP, Hertweck C (2005) Pathogenic fungus harbours endosymbiotic bacteria for toxin production. Nature 437:884–888

A journal article with 3 authors

Walker J, Cliff RA, Latham AG (2006) U-Pb isotopic age of the StW 573 hominid from Sterkfontein, South Africa. Science 314:1592–1594

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Drescher M, Hentschel M, Kienberger R, et al (2002) Time-resolved atomic inner-shell spectroscopy. Nature 419:803–807

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Sarisky D (2012) Scriptural Interpretation. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK

An edited book

Gutiérrez-López GF, Barbosa-Cánovas GV, Welti-Chanes J, Parada-Arias E (eds) (2008) Food Engineering: Integrated Approaches. Springer, New York, NY

A chapter in an edited book

Wolff KE (2011) Applications of Temporal Conceptual Semantic Systems. In: Wolff KE, Palchunov DE, Zagoruiko NG, Andelfinger U (eds) Knowledge Processing and Data Analysis: First International Conference, KONT 2007, Novosibirsk, Russia, September 14-16, 2007 and First International Conference, KPP 2007,Darmstadt, Germany, September 28-30, 2007. Revised Selected Papers. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 59–78

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 Archives of Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2015) How Plankton Help Control Clouds Over The World’s Most Remote Oceans. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/how-plankton-help-control-clouds-over-world-s-most-remote-oceans/. Accessed 30 Oct 2018

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 (2000) Federal Aviation Administration: Challenges in Modernizing the Agency. 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

Kostenbader TC (2015) Analyzing students’ attitudes towards science during inquiry-based lessons. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

(nyt) SK (2002) World Briefing | Europe: Russia: Rebels Avenge A Leader’s Death. New York Times A6

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Gibson 2009).
This sentence cites two references (Partida-Martinez and Hertweck 2005; Gibson 2009).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Partida-Martinez and Hertweck 2005)
Three or more authors: (Drescher et al. 2002)

About the journal

Full journal title	Archives of Microbiology
Abbreviation	Arch. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0302-8933
ISSN (online)	1432-072X
Scope	Biochemistry Genetics Molecular Biology Microbiology General Medicine