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

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

Weaver AJ: Climate change. Toward the second commitment period of the Kyoto Protocol. Science 2011;332:795–796.

A journal article with 2 authors

Northrup AB, MacMillan DWC: Two-step synthesis of carbohydrates by selective aldol reactions. Science 2004;305:1752–1755.

A journal article with 3 authors

Meyer P, Saez L, Young MW: PER-TIM interactions in living Drosophila cells: an interval timer for the circadian clock. Science 2006;311:226–229.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

Lu C, Dong S, Xia Z, Luo H, Yan Z, Wang H, et al.: Polarization enhancement and ferroelectric switching enabled by interacting magnetic structures in DyMnO₃ thin films. Sci Rep 2013;3:3374.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Heritier S, Cantoni E, Copt S, Victoria-Feser M-P: Robust Methods in Biostatistics: Heritier/Robust Methods in Biostatistics, Chichester, UK, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2009.

An edited book

Ribeiro AB, Mateus EP, Couto N, editors: Electrokinetics Across Disciplines and Continents: New Strategies for Sustainable Development, Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016.

A chapter in an edited book

Samaka M, Ally M: Model for Transforming Engineering Education Using Technology-Enhanced Learning; in Abdulwahed M, Hasna MO, Froyd JE (eds): Advances in Engineering Education in the Middle East and North Africa: Current Status, and Future Insights. Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2016, pp 117–138.

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 Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Blog post

Davis J: Enormous Magma Chamber Discovered Deep Below Yellowstone. IFLScience 2015;

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: Federal Transit Administration: Progress Made in Implementing Changes to the Job Access Program, but Evaluation and Oversight Processes Need Improvement, Washington, DC, U.S. Government Printing Office, 2006.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Queener JD: A Post-School Outcome Study of Students with Learning Disabilities 2015;

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

Kelly M: THE 1992 CAMPAIGN: Undeclared Candidate; Perot Shifts on Homosexuals in Military. New York Times 1992;A18.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text

About the journal

Full journal title	Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology
Abbreviation	J. Mol. Microbiol. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	1464-1801
ISSN (online)	1660-2412
Scope	Biotechnology Molecular Biology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology Microbiology