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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Medical 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	Download the output style file
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

Squires JE. Artificial blood. Science 2002;295:1002–1005.

A journal article with 2 authors

Wolfe MS, Kopan R. Intramembrane proteolysis: theme and variations. Science 2004;305:1119–1123.

A journal article with 3 authors

Doncaster CP, Jackson A, Watson RA. Competitive environments sustain costly altruism with negligible assortment of interactions. Sci Rep 2013;3:2836.

A journal article with 6 or more authors

Möbius ME, Lauderdale BE, Nagel SR, Jaeger HM. Size separation of granular particles. Nature 2001;414:270.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Moskowitz HR, Muñoz AM, Gacula MC Jr. Viewpoints and Controversies in Sensory Science and Consumer Product Testing. Trumbull, Connecticut, USA: Food & Nutrition Press, Inc.; 2008.

An edited book

Tong VCH (ed). Geoscience Research and Education: Teaching at Universities. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2014.

A chapter in an edited book

Aujogue J-B, Barge M, Kellendonk J, Lenz D. Equicontinuous Factors, Proximality and Ellis Semigroup for Delone Sets. In: Kellendonk J, Lenz D, Savinien J (editors). Mathematics of Aperiodic Order. Basel: Springer; 2015. pp. 137–194.

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 Medical Microbiology.

Blog post

Andrew E. After Rosetta, Japanese Mission Aims For An Asteroid In Search of Origins of Earth’s Water. IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/after-rosetta-japanese-mission-aims-asteroid-search-origins-earth-s-water/ (2014, accessed 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. Natural Gas: Factors Affecting Approval Times for Construction of Natural Gas Pipelines. RCED-92-100; Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 26 February 1992.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Liu T-WD. Isolation and Characterization of pco-1, which Encodes a Regulatory Protein that Controls Purine Degradation in Neurospora crassa. Doctoral Dissertation; Ohio State University; 2003.

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

Branch J. No White House Visit? Actually, No Invitation. New York Times, 13 June 2017, p. B13.

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	Journal of Medical Microbiology
Abbreviation	J. Med. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0022-2615
ISSN (online)	1473-5644
Scope	Microbiology General Medicine Microbiology (medical)