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

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

[1]

Schlermiler, Q., 2000. German research agency “doesn’t stifle creativity”, say 1,600 scientists. Nature, 2000, 404, 915.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Shafto, M.A., Tyler, L.K., 2014. Language in the aging brain: the network dynamics of cognitive decline and preservation. Science, 2014, 346, 583–587.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Li, Y.-L., Kinloch, I.A., Windle, A.H., 2004. Direct spinning of carbon nanotube fibers from chemical vapor deposition synthesis. Science, 2004, 304, 276–278.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

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Garvin, J., Buick, R., Anbar, A.D., Arnold, G.L., Kaufman, A.J., 2009. Isotopic evidence for an aerobic nitrogen cycle in the latest Archean. Science, 2009, 323, 1045–1048.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Krings, A., Braham, R.R., 2008. Guide to Tendrillate Climbers of Costa Rican Mountains., Blackwell Publishing, Oxford, UK.

An edited book

[1]

Yang, J., Ginige, A., Mayr, H.C., Kutsche, R.-D. (Eds.), 2009. Information Systems: Modeling, Development, and Integration: Third International United Information Systems Conference, UNISCON 2009, Sydney, Australia, April 21-24, 2009. Proceedings.vol. 20, Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

van der Lans, A., 2013. In: Baan, P (Ed.), Enterprise Information Management: When Information Becomes Inspiration, Springer, New York, NY, pp. 101–123.

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 Journal of Basic Microbiology.

Blog post

[1]

Andrew, E., 2014. First Vaccine For ’Mad-Cow’- Like Disease In Deer Shows Promise. IFLScience, 2014.

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

[1]

Government Accountability Office, 1996. Satellite Control Capabilities: National Policy Could Help Consolidation and Cost Savings., 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

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Vas, L.T., 2008. Orbis Pictus: Intermedialität Zwischen Berliner Stadtmalerei Und Literarischer Stadterfahrung Dargestellt Anhand Der Werke von E.T.A. Hoffmann Und Wilhelm Raabe. Doctoral dissertation. University of Cincinnati, 2008.

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

[1]

St. John Kelly, E., 1994. PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times, 1994, 148.

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	Journal of Basic Microbiology
Abbreviation	J. Basic Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0233-111X
ISSN (online)	1521-4028
Scope	Genetics Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology General Medicine