How to format your references using the Microbial Drug Resistance citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Microbial Drug Resistance (MDR). 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

Standen N. Tuning channels for blood pressure. Nature 2000;407(6806):845, 847–8.

A journal article with 2 authors

Youk H, Lim WA. Secreting and sensing the same molecule allows cells to achieve versatile social behaviors. Science 2014;343(6171):1242782.

A journal article with 3 authors

Glazier AM, Nadeau JH, Aitman TJ. Finding genes that underlie complex traits. Science 2002;298(5602):2345–2349.

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Wallingford JB, Rowning BA, Vogeli KM, et al. Dishevelled controls cell polarity during Xenopus gastrulation. Nature 2000;405(6782):81–85.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Evans AW. Economics, Real Estate and the Supply of Land. Blackwell Publishing Ltd: Oxford, UK; 2008.

An edited book

Jin D, Lin S, (eds). Advances in Multimedia, Software Engineering and Computing Vol.2: Proceedings of the 2011 MSEC International Conference on Multimedia, Software Engineering and Computing, November 26–27, Wuhan, China. Advances in Intelligent and Soft Computing. Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2012.

A chapter in an edited book

Scott JR, Effenberger AJ, Hatch JJ. Influence of Atmospheric Pressure and Composition on LIBS. In: Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy: Theory and Applications. (Musazzi S, Perini U. eds). Springer Series in Optical Sciences Springer: Berlin, Heidelberg; 2014; pp. 91–116.

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 Microbial Drug Resistance.

Blog post

Andrew E. Discovery of More Genes Associated With Alzheimer’s Disease. IFLScience; 2013. Available from: https://www.iflscience.com/brain/discovery-more-genes-associated-alzheimer’s-disease/ [Last accessed: 10/30/2018].

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. Highway Projects: Extent of Projects with Unobligated Balances of Greater Than 85 Percent as of August 16, 2002. U.S. Government Printing Office: Washington, DC; 2002.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

Mirzalou R. Design and Simulation of an 8-PSK Super Regenerative Receiver with New Phase Detection Technique. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach: Long Beach, CA; 2017.

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

Kleiman K. Change Sweeps Through Black Theater in Chicago. New York Times 2011;A19B.

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in superscript:

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	Microbial Drug Resistance
Abbreviation	Microb. Drug Resist.
ISSN (print)	1076-6294
ISSN (online)	1931-8448
Scope	Immunology Microbiology Microbiology (medical) Pharmacology