How to format your references using the Folia Microbiologica citation style

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

Camba R (2000) Start making sense. Nature 406:461

A journal article with 2 authors

Beghein C, Trampert J (2003) Robust normal mode constraints on inner-core anisotropy from model space search. Science 299:552–555

A journal article with 3 authors

Roberts RB, Ser JR, Kocher TD (2009) Sexual conflict resolved by invasion of a novel sex determiner in Lake Malawi cichlid fishes. Science 326:998–1001

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Dian BC, Brown GG, Douglass KO, Pate BH (2008) Measuring picosecond isomerization kinetics via broadband microwave spectroscopy. Science 320:924–928

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Schiek B, Rolfes I, Siweris H-J (2005) Noise in High-Frequency Circuits and Oscillators. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Gvozdjáková A (ed) (2008) Mitochondrial Medicine: Mitochondrial Metabolism, Diseases, Diagnosis and Therapy. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Crabtree NJ, Kent K (2016) Acquisition of DXA in Children and Adolescents. In: Fung EB, Bachrach LK, Sawyer AJ (eds) Bone Health Assessment in Pediatrics: Guidelines for Clinical Practice. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 89–114

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 Folia Microbiologica.

Blog post

Luntz S (2015) Birds That Wake Up Earlier Have More Offspring. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/early-birds-watch-out/. 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 (1990) Tax System Modernization: Management Mistakes Caused Delays in Automated Underreporter System. 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

Kay K (2013) A support group for older adult males struggling with depression: A grant proposal. 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

Brantley B (2016) So Smart (but Truly Vile). New York Times C1

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Camba 2000).
This sentence cites two references (Camba 2000; Beghein and Trampert 2003).

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

Two authors: (Beghein and Trampert 2003)
Three or more authors: (Dian et al. 2008)

About the journal

Full journal title	Folia Microbiologica
Abbreviation	Folia Microbiol. (Praha)
ISSN (print)	0015-5632
ISSN (online)	1874-9356
Scope	Microbiology General Medicine