How to format your references using the Fermentation citation style

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

Mestel, L. Obituary: Hermann Bondi (1919-2005). Nature 2005, 437, 828.

A journal article with 2 authors

Taylor, A.F.; Smith, G.R. RecBCD Enzyme Is a DNA Helicase with Fast and Slow Motors of Opposite Polarity. Nature 2003, 423, 889–893.

A journal article with 3 authors

Dhuime, B.; Hawkesworth, C.; Cawood, P. Geochemistry. When Continents Formed. Science 2011, 331, 154–155.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Dinish, U.S.; Balasundaram, G.; Chang, Y.-T.; Olivo, M. Actively Targeted in Vivo Multiplex Detection of Intrinsic Cancer Biomarkers Using Biocompatible SERS Nanotags. Sci. Rep. 2014, 4, 4075.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Chong, Y.Y. Investment Risk Management; John Wiley & Sons Ltd: Oxford, UK, 2004; ISBN 9781118673324.

An edited book

Applied Cryptography and Network Security: 8th International Conference, ACNS 2010, Beijing, China, June 22-25, 2010. Proceedings; Zhou, J., Yung, M., Eds.; Lecture Notes in Computer Science; Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010; Vol. 6123; ISBN 9783642137075.

A chapter in an edited book

Kress, T.M. Singing a Different Tune. In Transforming Urban Education: Urban Teachers and Students Working Collaboratively; Tobin, K., Shady, A., Eds.; SensePublishers: Rotterdam, 2014; pp. 53–69 ISBN 9789462095632.

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 Fermentation.

Blog post

Andrew, E. How We Invented A Star Trek-Style Sonic Tractor Beam Available online: https://www.iflscience.com/environment/how-we-invented-star-trek-style-sonic-tractor-beam/ (accessed on 30 October 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 Public Transportation: FTA’s Triennial Review Program Has Improved, But Assessments of Grantees’ Performance Could Be Enhanced; U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC, 2009;

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Sullivan, T.J. Molecular Ecology, Disease Ecology, and Candidate Genes for Pathogen Resistance in the Blue Crab Callinectes Sapidus. Doctoral dissertation, University of Louisiana: Lafayette, LA, 2017.

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

Fandos, N.; Shear, M.D. List of Russia Sanctions Is Provided to Congress. New York Times 2017, A11.

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	Fermentation
ISSN (online)	2311-5637
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