How to format your references using the Molecular Microbiology citation style

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

Chipman, A. (2007) A commodity no more. Nature 449: 131.

A journal article with 2 authors

Becher, O.J., and Wechsler-Reya, R.J. (2014) Cancer. For pediatric glioma, leave no histone unturned. Science 346: 1458–1459.

A journal article with 3 authors

Branch, T.A., Hively, D.J., and Hilborn, R. (2013) Is the ocean food provision index biased? Nature 495: E5-6; discussion E7.

A journal article with 8 or more authors

Fornadi, K., Ronai, K.Z., Turanyi, C.Z., Malavade, T.S., Shapiro, C.M., Novak, M., et al. (2014) Sleep apnea is not associated with worse outcomes in kidney transplant recipients. Sci Rep 4: 6987.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Martin-Flatin, J.-P. (2002) Web-Based Management of IP Networks and Systems. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK.

An edited book

Bramer, M., and Terziyan, V. (eds) (2005) Industrial Applications of Semantic Web: Proceedings of the 1st IFIP WG12.5 Working Conference on Industrial Applications of Semantic Web, August 25–27, 2005, Jyväskylä, Finland. Springer US, Boston, MA.

A chapter in an edited book

Kuri-Morales, A., and Aldana-Bobadilla, E. (2010) Finding Irregularly Shaped Clusters Based on Entropy. In Advances in Data Mining. Applications and Theoretical Aspects: 10th Industrial Conference, ICDM 2010, Berlin, Germany, July 12-14, 2010. Proceedings. Perner, P. (ed.). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. pp. 57–70.

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 Molecular Microbiology.

Blog post

Hale, T. (2016) Watch Live As Three Astronauts Return To Earth Tonight. IFLScience https://www.iflscience.com/space/watch-live-as-three-astronauts-return-to-earth-tonight/. Accessed October 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 (2005) National Assessment of Educational Progress Exclusion Rates for Students with Disabilities. 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

Lummus, S. (2010) Perceptions of required leadership behaviors for nurse leaders as measured by the Leadership Practices Inventory. .

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

Cooper, M. (2017) Putting the Passion of Opera Behind Bars. New York Times C7.

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Chipman, 2007).
This sentence cites two references (Chipman, 2007; Becher and Wechsler-Reya, 2014).

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

Two authors: (Becher and Wechsler-Reya, 2014)
Three or more authors: (Fornadi et al., 2014)

About the journal

Full journal title	Molecular Microbiology
Abbreviation	Mol. Microbiol.
ISSN (print)	0950-382X
ISSN (online)	1365-2958
Scope	Molecular Biology Microbiology