How to format your references using the Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins. 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

Koen D (2004) Nuts and bolts. Passing the interview. Nature 429:112

A journal article with 2 authors

Catlow R, Fisher A (2011) Marshall Stoneham (1940-2011). Nature 471:306

A journal article with 3 authors

Li CW, Ciston J, Kanan MW (2014) Electroreduction of carbon monoxide to liquid fuel on oxide-derived nanocrystalline copper. Nature 508:504–507

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Gonen T, Cheng Y, Sliz P, et al (2005) Lipid-protein interactions in double-layered two-dimensional AQP0 crystals. Nature 438:633–638

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Zanotto ED (2013) Crystals in Glass. John Wiley & Sons, Inc., Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Caforio G (2006) Handbook of the Sociology of the Military. Springer US, Boston, MA

A chapter in an edited book

El-Shanti H, Majeed HA (2010) Familial Mediterranean Fever and Other Autoinflammatory Disorders. In: Teebi AS (ed) Genetic Disorders Among Arab Populations. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, pp 111–143

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 Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins.

Blog post

Fang J (2015) Swedish Lizard Babies Survive Better With Warmer Temperatures. In: IFLScience. Accessed 30 Oct 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 (2012) Air Passenger Screening: Transportation Security Administration Could Improve Complaint Processes. 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

Beverley D (2014) Golf as a tool for executive leadership development. Doctoral dissertation, Pepperdine University

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

St. John Kelly E (1993) PLAYING IN THE NEIGHBORHOOD. New York Times 1315

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	Probiotics and Antimicrobial Proteins
Abbreviation	Probiotics Antimicrob. Proteins
ISSN (print)	1867-1306
ISSN (online)	1867-1314
Scope	Molecular Biology Molecular Medicine Microbiology