How to format your references using the New Microbes and New Infections citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for New Microbes and New Infections. 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

[1]

Caruana C. An eastern promise of regeneration. Nature 2005;435:998–9.

A journal article with 2 authors

[1]

Govers F, Angenent GC. Plant science. Fertility goddesses as Trojan horses. Science 2010;330:922–3.

A journal article with 3 authors

[1]

Imai T, Suzuki M, Sakano H. Odorant receptor-derived cAMP signals direct axonal targeting. Science 2006;314:657–61.

A journal article with 7 or more authors

[1]

Biastoch A, Böning CW, Schwarzkopf FU, Lutjeharms JRE. Increase in Agulhas leakage due to poleward shift of Southern Hemisphere westerlies. Nature 2009;462:495–8.

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

[1]

Singer B, Fedorinchik G. Investment Leadership and Portfolio Management. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.; 2009.

An edited book

[1]

Oscoz J, Galicia D, Miranda R, editors. Identification Guide of Freshwater Macroinvertebrates of Spain. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands; 2011.

A chapter in an edited book

[1]

Wang X, Gu W, Schosek K, Chellappan S, Xuan D. Sensor Network Configuration Under Physical Attacks. In: Lu X, Zhao W, editors. Networking and Mobile Computing: Third International Conference, ICCNMC 2005, Zhangjiajie, China, August 2-4, 2005. Proceedings, Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer; 2005, p. 23–32.

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 New Microbes and New Infections.

Blog post

[1]

Andrews R. Massive Methane Reservoirs Being Unleashed By Global Warming. IFLScience 2015. https://www.iflscience.com/environment/massive-methane-reservoirs-being-unleashed-global-warming/ (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

[1]

Government Accountability Office. Effect of Personnel Reform on the Federal Aviation Administration’s Budget. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office; 2009.

Theses and dissertations

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

Doctoral dissertation

[1]

Cong M. Predictive models of cytotoxicity as mediated by exposure to environmental toxicants and drugs. Doctoral dissertation. California State University, Long Beach, 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

[1]

Williams J. Backstage With Van Halen. New York Times 2017:BR4.

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	New Microbes and New Infections
Abbreviation	New Microbes New Infect.
ISSN (print)	2052-2975
Scope