How to format your references using the Future Microbiology citation style

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

Ye J. Cell biology. Protease sets site-1 on lysosomes. Science 333(6038), 50–51 (2011).

A journal article with 2 authors

Yosef I, Qimron U. Microbiology: How bacteria get spacers from invaders. Nature 519(7542), 166–167 (2015).

A journal article with 3 authors

Catani M, Bodi I, Dell’Acqua F. Comment on ‘The geometric structure of the brain fiber pathways’. Science 337(6102), 1605 (2012).

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Brody DL, Magnoni S, Schwetye KE et al. Amyloid-beta dynamics correlate with neurological status in the injured human brain. Science 321(5893), 1221–1224 (2008).

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Stidwill D, Fletcher R. Normal Binocular Vision. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., West Sussex, UK (2010).

An edited book

Fonseca BB, Fernandez H, Rossi DA (Eds.). Campylobacter spp. and Related Organisms in Poultry: Pathogen-Host Interactions, Diagnosis and Epidemiology. Springer International Publishing, Cham (2016).

A chapter in an edited book

Lapin M, Damborská I, Faško P, Gaál L, Melo M. Some Facts on Extreme Weather Events Analysis in Slovakia. In: Bioclimatology and Natural Hazards. Střelcová K, Mátyás C, Kleidon A, et al. (Ed.), Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, 39–53 (2009).

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 Future Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. ‘Obese Three-Year-Old Diagnosed With Youngest Known Case Of Type 2 Diabetes’ (2015). https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/obese-three-year-old-youngest-known-case-type-2-diabetes/.

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. Ed-Flex Program: Increase in Flexibility Useful but Limited by Scope of Waiver Authority, U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, (1999).

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Edmonds JL. Doctoral dissertation, Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS, (2009).

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

Wyndham S. The Circles of Hellhaus, (2017).

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [2].
This sentence cites two references [2,4].
This sentence cites four references [2,4,6,8].

About the journal

Full journal title	Future Microbiology
Abbreviation	Future Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	1746-0913
ISSN (online)	1746-0921
Scope	Microbiology Microbiology (medical)