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

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

Friedlander, M. 2012. Physics: A century of cosmic rays. Nature 483, 400–401.

A journal article with 2 authors

Xu, B., and Tao, N.J. 2003. Measurement of single-molecule resistance by repeated formation of molecular junctions. Science 301, 1221–1223.

A journal article with 3 authors

Ur, J.A., Karsgaard, P., and Oates, J. 2007. Early urban development in the Near East. Science 317, 1188.

A journal article with 11 or more authors

Fabra, M., Raldúa, D., Power, D.M., Deen, P.M.T., and Cerdà, J. 2005. Marine fish egg hydration is aquaporin-mediated. Science 307, 545.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Cretu, O., Stewart, R., and Berends, T. 2011. Risk Management for Design and Construction. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ.

An edited book

Bièvre, P.D., and Günzler, H. eds. 2005. Validation in Chemical Measurement. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.

A chapter in an edited book

Tilley, E., Zurbrügg, C., and Lüthi, C. 2010. A Flowstream Approach for Sustainable Sanitation Systems, pp. 69–86. In van Vliet, B., Spaargaren, G., and Oosterveer, P., eds, Social Perspectives on the Sanitation Challenge. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht.

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.

Blog post

Luntz, S. 2015. Birds Go Nuts Choosing Most Promising Shell. IFLScience.

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. 2015. Space Acquisitions: GAO Assessment of DOD Responsive Launch Report. 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

Grayson, N. 2014. Development of a preliminary scale of counterproductive experiences in supervision: Attitudes of clinical psychology doctoral students.

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

Qiu, L. 2017. After Denouncing ‘Fake News,’ a Catalog of Falsehoods. New York Times A12.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by name and year in parentheses:

This sentence cites one reference (Friedlander, 2012).
This sentence cites two references (Friedlander, 2012; Xu and Tao, 2003).

Here are examples of in-text citations with multiple authors:

Two authors: (Xu and Tao, 2003)
Three or more authors: (Fabra et al., 2005)

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Microbiology
ISSN (print)	1225-8873
ISSN (online)	1976-3794
Scope