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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology (JMB). 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

Gühr M. 2012. Chemistry. Getting molecular electrons into motion. Science 335: 1314–1315.

A journal article with 2 authors

Hickman AJ, Sanford MS. 2012. High-valent organometallic copper and palladium in catalysis. Nature 484: 177–185.

A journal article with 3 authors

King J-R, Bekinschtein T, Dehaene S. 2011. Comment on ‘Preserved feedforward but impaired top-down processes in the vegetative state’. Science 334: 1203; author reply 1203.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Widmer C, Lippert C, Weissbrod O, Fusi N, Kadie C, Davidson R, et al. 2014. Further improvements to linear mixed models for genome-wide association studies. Sci. Rep. 4: 6874.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Block T, Eggert H, Kauschke W. 2013. Lager im Bauwesen. Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim, Germany.

An edited book

Sivaperuman C, Baqri QH, Ramaswamy G, Naseema M, eds. 2009. Faunal Ecology and Conservation of the Great Indian Desert. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Choi Y, Thummadi BV, Lyytinen K, Yoo Y. 2012. Analyzing Complex Design Processes: The Effects of Task Automation and Integration on Process Structure in Microprocessor Design, pp 38–49, In Helfert M, Donnellan B (eds.), , Practical Aspects of Design Science: European Design Science Symposium, EDSS 2011, Leixlip, Ireland, October 14, 2011, Revised Selected Papers. . Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

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 Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Blog post

Fang J. 2015. Costa Rican Surge In Snakebites Linked To El Niño Cycles. Available from https://www.iflscience.com/plants-and-animals/costa-rica-surge-snakebites-linked-el-nino/. Accessed Oct. 30, 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. 2008. Information Technology: Agencies Need to Establish Comprehensive Policies to Address Changes to Projects’ Cost, Schedule, and Performance Goals. 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

Pyzdrowski JE. 2017. Experiences of Advisors/Mentors in Developing Leadership Emergence in a Post Conflict, Marginalized Society: A Phenomenological Study.

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

Gabriel T. 2017. ‘We’re Throwaway People’. New York Times A12.

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 Microbiology and Biotechnology
ISSN (print)	1017-7825
ISSN (online)	1738-8872
Scope