How to format your references using the Indian Journal of Microbiology citation style

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

Amzica F (2010) Comment on “The human K-complex represents an isolated cortical down-state.” Science 330:35; author reply 35

A journal article with 2 authors

Rossant J, Hogan B (2007) Retrospective. Anne McLaren (1927-2007). Science 317:609

A journal article with 3 authors

Xiang C, Chan C-K, Wang J (2014) Proposal and numerical study of ultra-compact active hybrid plasmonic resonator for sub-wavelength lasing applications. Sci Rep 4:3720

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Chen J, Perebeinos V, Freitag M, et al (2005) Bright infrared emission from electrically induced excitons in carbon nanotubes. Science 310:1171–1174

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Hellesland J, Challamel N, Casandjian C, Lanos C (2013) Reinforced Concrete Beams, Columns and Frames. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ USA

An edited book

Vachoux A (2006) Applications of Specification and Design Languages for SoCs: Selected papers from FDL 2005. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht

A chapter in an edited book

Li J, Liu P, Zhang R, Lo J (2016) Advanced FIB Applications in Materials Research at CanmetMATERIALS. In: Carpenter JS, Bai C, Escobedo JP, et al (eds) Characterization of Minerals, Metals, and Materials 2015. Springer International Publishing, Cham, pp 41–47

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 Indian Journal of Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) How To Build A Smartphone Microscope Stand for $10. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/technology/how-build-smartphone-microscope-stand-10/. 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 (2004) Job Access and Reverse Commute: Program Status and Potential Effects of Proposed Legislative Changes. 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

Ehsani S (2014) Design of a Teleoperation – Based Robotic Surgical System. Doctoral dissertation, Southern Illinois University

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

Crow K (2002) Gently, Neighbors Want Statue to Find a Home. New York Times 144

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	Indian Journal of Microbiology
Abbreviation	Indian J. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0046-8991
ISSN (online)	0973-7715
Scope	Microbiology