How to format your references using the Cellular Microbiology citation style

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

Barinaga, M. (2000) SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY: Geology Couple Plots a Path to Success. Science 289: 2027.

A journal article with 2 authors

Kan, J., and Wang, Y. (2013) Large and fast reversible Li-ion storages in Fe2O3-graphene sheet-on-sheet sandwich-like nanocomposites. Sci Rep 3: 3502.

A journal article with 3 authors

Pocock, M.J.O., Evans, D.M., and Memmott, J. (2012) The robustness and restoration of a network of ecological networks. Science 335: 973–977.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Kishimoto, T., Ando, J., Tatara, S., Yamada, N., Konishi, K., Kimura, N., et al. (2014) Alloparenting for chimpanzee twins. Sci Rep 4: 6306.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Eicker, U. (2005) Solar Technologies for Buildings. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Haughton, D. (2015) Movie Analytics: A Hollywood Introduction to Big Data. Springer International Publishing, Cham.

A chapter in an edited book

Wiser, M., Frazier, K.E., and Fox, V. (2013) At the Beginning Was Amount of Material: A Learning Progression for Matter for Early Elementary Grades. In Concepts of Matter in Science Education. Tsaparlis, G., and Sevian, H. (eds). Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht. pp. 95–122.

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 Cellular Microbiology.

Blog post

Carpineti, A. (2016) Space Debris Has Chipped One Of The ISS’s Windows. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/space/space-debris-has-chipped-one-isss-windows/. Accessed October 30, 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 (1993) Aviation Research: Actions to Enhance the Effectiveness of FAA’s Research Activities. 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

Weisblatt, B.H. (2010) The numinous on Russian soil: A depth psychological interpretation of religious experience in “The Brothers Karamazov.” .

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. (2012) Sculptured By Weights And a Strict Vegan Diet. New York Times B10.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Barinaga, 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Barinaga, 2000; Kan and Wang, 2013).

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

Two authors: (Kan and Wang, 2013)
Three or more authors: (Kishimoto et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Cellular Microbiology
Abbreviation	Cell. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	1462-5814
ISSN (online)	1462-5822
Scope	Immunology Microbiology Virology