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

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for World Journal of 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	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

Fedoroff NV (2003) Agriculture. Prehistoric GM corn. Science 302:1158–1159

A journal article with 2 authors

Dawson TM, Dawson VL (2003) Molecular pathways of neurodegeneration in Parkinson’s disease. Science 302:819–822

A journal article with 3 authors

Allen AP, Brown JH, Gillooly JF (2002) Global biodiversity, biochemical kinetics, and the energetic-equivalence rule. Science 297:1545–1548

A journal article with 5 or more authors

Sremcević M, Schmidt J, Salo H, et al (2007) A belt of moonlets in Saturn’s A ring. Nature 449:1019–1021

Books and book chapters

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

An authored book

Valizadeh P (2016) Field Effect Transistors, A Comprehensive Overview. John Wiley & Sons, Inc, Hoboken, NJ

An edited book

Saglietti F, Oster N (eds) (2007) Computer Safety, Reliability, and Security: 26th International Conference, SAFECOMP 2007, Nuremberg, Germany, September 18-21, 2007. Proceedings. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg

A chapter in an edited book

Silfwerbrand J, Beushausen H, Courard L (2011) Bond. In: Bissonnette B, Courard L, Fowler DW, Granju J-L (eds) Bonded Cement-Based Material Overlays for the Repair, the Lining or the Strengthening of Slabs or Pavements: State-of-the-Art Report of the RILEM Technical Committee 193-RLS. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht, pp 51–79

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 World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology.

Blog post

Andrew E (2014) Joy To The World: An Ode To Outer Space At Christmas. In: IFLScience. https://www.iflscience.com/space/joy-world-ode-outer-space-christmas/. 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 (2017) 2015 Electronically Controlled Pneumatic Brake Rule: Comparison of DOT Forecasts for Selected Data Points for 2015 and 2016 to Preliminary Data for Those Years. 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

Liu CC (2012) Charles T. Griffes’s “Roman Sketches”: A performer’s guide. Doctoral dissertation, California State University, Long Beach

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

Crow K (2002) “Something To Hang Onto”: A New Calling Making Flags. New York Times 147

In-text citations

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

This sentence cites one reference (Fedoroff 2003).
This sentence cites two references (Dawson and Dawson 2003; Fedoroff 2003).

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

Two authors: (Dawson and Dawson 2003)
Three or more authors: (Sremcević et al. 2007)

About the journal

Full journal title	World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
Abbreviation	World J. Microbiol. Biotechnol.
ISSN (print)	0959-3993
ISSN (online)	1573-0972
Scope	Biotechnology Physiology Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology General Medicine Food Science Plant Science Biochemistry Microbiology